Professor Richard O. Sinnott is Professor of Applied Computing Systems at the University of Melbourne. He has a PhD in Computing Science, an MSc in Software Engineering and a BSc in Theoretical Physics (Hons). He is technical lead on a multitude of large-scale international projects with emphasis on security worth over $400m. This includes numerous projects in the biomedical domain and includes disease registries and clinical trials and observational studies involving thousands of patients. He has over 400 peer-reviewed publications across a range of computing and application-specific domains.