Máire O'Neill
Máire O'Neill | |
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O'Neill speaks at the Real World Crypto conference in 2018 | |
| Born | Máire McLoone |
| Alma mater | Queen's University Belfast |
| Known for | Encryption Data security |
| Awards | Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Queen's University Belfast |
| Doctoral advisor | John McCanny |
Máire O'Neill (née McLoone) FREng (born 1978) is an Irish Professor of Information Security and inventor based at the Centre for Secure Information Technologies Queen's University Belfast. She was named the 2007 British Female Inventors & Innovators Network Female Inventor of the Year. She was the youngest person to be made a professor of engineering at Queen's University Belfast and youngest person to be inducted into the Irish Academy of Engineering.