Máire O'Neill

Máire O'Neill
O'Neill speaks at the Real World Crypto conference in 2018
Born
Máire McLoone

Alma materQueen's University Belfast
Known forEncryption
Data security
AwardsRoyal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal
Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
Scientific career
InstitutionsQueen's University Belfast
Doctoral advisorJohn 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.