Vanessa Teague
Chairperson at The Australian National University
Australia
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Top SchoolVanessa Teague is a cryptographer and academic leader who bridges rigorous research and practical open-source engineering to strengthen election security, privacy, and democratic processes. As Chairperson of Democracy Developers, CEO of Thinking Cybersecurity, and Adjunct Associate Professor at ANU, she combines policy-minded product work with deep cryptographic expertise rooted in a Stanford PhD and two decades in academia. Her research spans cryptographic protocols, multiparty computation and the economic analysis that underpins digital currencies and public ledgers, applied notably to voting systems. Known for translating formal security models into deployable tools, she leads teams building open-source software that supports transparent, auditable democracy. Unusually for a researcher of her stature, she remains directly contactable for collaboration and consultation via her Thinking Cybersecurity email.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (49)
vote9
limiting9
voting9
parliament8
elections8
ups8
abc8
artifact8
verifiable7
contact-tracing7
publish7
governance6
privacy-preserving6
android-app6
democracy6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
AusOpenTech/makingAPlan
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
RightToAskOrg/bulletin-board
Apr 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:6 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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