Chris Culnane

Dr Chris Culnane is a Lecturer of Cybersecurity and Privacy in the School of Computing and Information Systems, and Deputy Chair of the Cybersecurity and Democracy Network, at the University of Melbourne. His research interests include verifiable electronic voting, secure data linkage, and data privacy. He led the design and development of the open source end-to-end verifiable electronic voting system used as part of the 2014 Victorian State Election. In the past few years his research has focused on privacy and in particular re-identification of open data releases, including the 2016 public release of a 10% sample of the Australian populations Medical and Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule billing records, and in 2018 the Myki release of 3 years worth of Victorian smart ticketing data.

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