Dr Vanessa Teague

 

Vanessa Teague is a research fellow in the computing and information systems department at the University of Melbourne. She's worked on cryptographic protocols for electronic voting ever since finishing a CS PhD at Stanford on cryptographic protocols for economic games. Australia's unusual voting system constitutes a special challenge.   

She also spends a lot of time explaining to parliamentarians and electoral officials that requirements for transparency, privacy and verifiability apply to computerized voting too.