Sarah Flannery
Sarah Flannery (1982 - ) Irish mathematician and child prodigy, best known for her work on the Cayley-Purser algorithm.
The eldest among five children, Flannery went to high school at Scoil Mhuire Gan Smal in Blarney, where she gave a science fair presentation on cryptography. In researching RSA encryption, she created her own encryption algorithm
, which earned her an Esat Young Scientist Exhibition and later an Intel Fellows Achievement Award. She went to college at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 2003 with a degree in computer engineering. Now she works for American video game developer Electronic Arts.