Vanessa Teague is a Senior Lecturer in the department of computing and information systems at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her main research interest is in electronic voting, with a focus on cryptographic schemes for end-to-end verifiable elections and a special interest in complex voting schemes such as IRV. She was a major contributor to the Victorian Electoral Commission's end-to-end verifiable electronic voting project, the first of its kind to run at a state level anywhere in the world. With Alex Halderman, she recently discovered serious security vulnerabilities in the NSW iVote Internet voting system.