Background
Seberry, Jennifer was born on February 13, 1944 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Daughter of Alexander John and Jane Seberry.
Seberry, Jennifer was born on February 13, 1944 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Daughter of Alexander John and Jane Seberry.
She attended Parramatta High School and got her Bachelor of Science at University of North.S.W., 1966. Master of Science at Louisiana Trobe University, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy at Louisiana Trobe University, 1971 (Computational Mathematics).
B.Ec. with two years completed at University of Sydney.
Professor Seberry was the first person to teach cryptology at an Australian University (University of Sydney).
She was also the first woman Professor of Computer Science in Australia. She was the first woman Reader in Combinatorial Mathematics in Australia.
Professor Seberry was a founding member of the University of Sydney"s Research Foundation for Information Technology Information Security Group in 1987.
The group grew into the Australian Information Security Association, an Australian representative industry body with over 1000 paid members and branches in most capitals.
Professor Seberry was one of the founders of the Asiacrypt international conference in 1990 (then called Auscrypt).
Seberry has contributed to the knowledge and use of Hadamard matrices and bent functions for network security. She has published numerous papers on mathematics, cryptography, and computer and network security.
She led the team that produced the LOKI and LOKI97 block ciphers and the HAVAL cryptographic hash functions.
Seberry is also a co-author of the Py stream cipher, which was a candidate for the eSTREAM stream cipher project
Research fellow, senior fellow Australian National University, Canberra, 1974-1976. Lecturer, senior lecturer University Sydney, 1976-1981, reader, 1981-1987. Professor, head department computer science University New South Wales, Canberra, 1987-1991.
Professor department computer science University Wollongong, Australia, since 1992.
Professor Seberry was a founding member of the University of Sydney"s Research Foundation for Information Technology Information Security Group in 1987.
Married W.D. Wallis, June 6, 1964. Children: Ralph, Luke.