Leonie Simpson

Leonie Simpson is an information security researcher at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the Science and Engineering Faculty. Dr Simpson has been involved in information security research for over 20 years. Her main interest is symmetric cryptology, widely used for data protection. Dr Simpson has extensive experience analysing cryptographic algorithms and finding weaknesses that reduce the security provided. Dr Simpson has applied her knowledge of design flaws in algorithms to help develop more secure ciphers, working in teams with Australian and international researchers.

Dr Simpson currently studies efficient encryption methods for use in securing data transmissions between small, low-power devices. This is important for securing communications between many small devices in the rapidly growing Internet of Things (IoT). Regular algorithms used in PCs and mobile phones require excessive resources for IoT environments and new secure algorithms are needed.

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