Presenters

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  Professor Jeannie Paterson, Professor

  Professor Jeannie Paterson

  Professor
  The University of Melbourne

  

  Jeannie Marie Paterson teaches and researches in the areas of contracts, consumer protection and consumer credit law, as well as the role of technological change in these contexts. Jeannie’s research covers three interrelated themes: 1.Support for consumers experiencing hardship, marginalisation or vulnerability, 2.The impact and potential of AI and automation on consumer decision making and choice, and 3.Legislative design, including the relationship between general law and statutory standards and soft law and coregulation options. Jeannie completed her BA/LLB (Hons) at ANU and her PhD at Monash University. She previously lectured at the Faculty of Law at Monash University and, prior to that time, was a solicitor at Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King & Wood Mallesons). Jeannie is the coauthor (with Andrew Robertson and Arlen Duke) of Principles of Contract Law (5th ed, 2015) and has written extensively on contract and consumer law. She currently coteaches New Technology Law (with Cam Whittfield) in the JD and Australian Consumer Law (with Hal Bolitho) in the MLM, along with Legal Method & Reasoning in the JD. With Elise Bant, Jeannie holds ARC Discovery Grants for projects on 'Remedies in Common Law and Under Statute for Misleading Conduct' and on 'A Coherent Law of Misleading Conduct'. Jeannie is also involved with several ongoing research and advocacy projects on consumer rights, including with the Melbourne Social Equity Institute, the Networked Society Institute, the Australian Communications Consumers Action Network, the Consumer Action Law Centre and West Justice. Jeannie is the cocoordinator of the Digital Citizens Research Network at MLS and, with Dr Andrea Cook, leads the Universal Access and Design Research Program at the Melbourne Social Equity Institute.

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  Dr Elham Naghi Zadeh Kakhki, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  Dr Elham Naghi Zadeh Kakhki

  Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  The University of Melbourne

  Dr Elham Naghizade is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Infrastructure Engineering (Geomatics discipline), The University of Melbourne. Elham obtained her PhD in The School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne in 2016. Her interests include Privacy Preserving Data Analytics, Spatiotemporal Data Mining, Applied Machine Learning and Mining Sensor Data. She has active collaborations across the university, in particular with the Melbourne Medical School and the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. She has also been a visiting research fellow at TUMCREATE in Singapore in 2018.

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  Dr Suelette Dreyfus, Researcher and Lecturer in the School of Computer and Information Systems

  Dr Suelette Dreyfus

  Researcher and Lecturer in the School of Computer and Information Systems
  Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne

  

  Dr Dreyfus is a researcher and lecturer in the School of Computer and Information Systems at The University of Melbourne. Her research interests focus around the application and usability of emerging technologies for broader social benefit. She does research in eEducation, eHealth and the impact of technology on integrity systems.

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  Associate Professor Vanessa Teague, Associate Professor

  Associate Professor Vanessa Teague

  Associate Professor
  The University of Melbourne

  

  Vanessa Teague is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at at The University of Melbourne. She did her Bachelor's Degree at The University of Melbourne and her Ph.D. in cryptography and game theory at Stanford University. Her main research interest is in electronic voting, with a focus on cryptographic schemes for endtoend verifiable elections and a special interest in complex voting schemes such as STV. She was a major contributor to the Victorian Electoral Commission's endtoend verifiable electronic voting project, the first of its kind to run at a state level anywhere in the world, joint work with Chris Culnane, Peter Ryan and Steve Schneider. She recently discovered, with Alex Halderman, serious security vulnerabilities in the NSW iVote Internet voting system. In an effort to comply with Australian law controlling the export of cryptography, all cryptography research for which she does not have an explicit permit is published openly online. See https://www.sharelatex.com/project/56d7e2eb6eb914c61613fcdb for the current unlicensed project. She has been invited to appear before several parliamentary inquiries into elections at the state and federal level, to answer questions on electronic voting. She is on the advisory board of Verified Voting and has been cochair of the USENIX Electronic Voting Technologies Workshop and the International conference on Evoting and identity.

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  Dr Dana McKay, Researcher

  Dr Dana McKay

  Researcher
  The University of Melbourne

  

  Dana works part time as a teaching assistant and part time researcher in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. Dana has a longstanding interest in how people find, use and interact with information. The primary goals of her research are to make it easier for information seekers to find the best information for them at the time when they need it. Dana has a long publication history in this field, but also considerable practical experience, having worked as a user experience expert in an academic library for ten years.

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  Dr Shanton Chang, Assoc. Professor - Department of Computing and Information Systems

  Dr Shanton Chang

  Assoc. Professor - Department of Computing and Information Systems
  University of Melbourne

  

  Associate Professor Shanton Chang is a research and teaching academic at The School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. He is also Associate Dean (International) at the Melbourne School of Engineering.