Sieun Lee

Research Fellow, Neurotechnology and TIPSS, SPRITE+

Sieun Lee is a Research Fellow with SPRITE+, exploring the future evolution of neurotechnology and its implications for trust, identity, privacy, safety, and security. She brings an interdisciplinary background in biomedical engineering and data-driven health research, developing computational methods for large-scale neuroimaging and health data to translate complex evidence into insights on neurodegeneration and mental health. Previously, she was a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham supported by the MRC Digital Youth programme and NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre (2022-2025), and a University of Nottingham Precision Imaging Beacon Fellow (2021-2022).

Mark Elliot

SPRITE+ Director, Professor of Data Science University of Manchester, SPRITE+

Mark Elliot has worked at the University of Manchester since 1996, mainly in the field of statistical confidentiality, founding the international renowned Confidentiality and Privacy Research Group (CAPRI) in 2002, and has managed numerous research projects within CAPRI remit.

​He is one of the key international researchers in the field of Statistical Disclosure and collaborates widely with non-academic partners, particularly with national statistical agencies where he has been a key influence on disclosure control methodology used in censuses and surveys and where the SUDA software that he developed in collaboration with colleagues in Computer Science at Manchester is used. 

Since 2012, he has led the UK Anonymisation Network, which has 600 members and provides advice, consultancy and training on anonymisation. 

Aside from Confidentiality, Privacy and Disclosure, his research interests include Data Science Methodology and its application to social science. He is director of the University’s new interdisciplinary MSc in Data Science and the doctoral programme in Data analytics and society.

Since 2023, he has led the Security, Privacy, Identity Trust Engagement Network Plus SPRITE+ funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council as Director and leads the network’s Deep Dive into Neurotechnology and Trust, Identity, Privacy Security and Safety (TIPSS)