Dr Chris Culnane

A key focus of Chris' research is to develop theoretical security mechanisms into fully functional implementations of security systems. His recent research has been focussed on end-to-end verifiable voting schemes. Prior to starting at the University of Melbourne, Chris worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Surrey on the Trustworthy Voting Systems Project (TVS). Chris was the technical lead, for the University of Surrey, on the vVote project, and led the design and implementation of the system. The system consisted of more than 25,000 lines of code and was successfully deployed as the Electronically Assisted Voting scheme in the Victorian state election, 2014. Chris' current works focusses on the verifiable postal voting and he is also interested in applying the techniques and analyses from verifiable voting in the wider field of privacy.