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Professor Alison Noble CBE FREng FRS

Alison Noble is the Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oxford. She is an inter-disciplinary researcher distinguished for her contributions to biomedical image analysis.

Her research interests lie in integrating knowledge of imaging and computational analysis in innovative ways to support clinical decision-making. Her recent research has focused on machine-learning based approaches to key problems in medical ultrasound developed in close collaboration with clinical researchers to demonstrate potential clinical and societal impact.

She also has longstanding strong interest in the commercialization of academic research. Alison is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2008), was awarded a CBE for services to science and engineering in 2023 and currently serves as a Vice President and Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society.

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Professional position

  • Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford

Subject groups

  • Engineering and Materials Science

    Computer engineering (including software), Engineering, medical

  • Other

    Science policy

  • Computer Sciences

    Artificial intelligence, machine learning, vision

Awards

  • Gabor Medal

    For developing solutions to a number of key problems in biomedical image analysis and substantially advancing automatic extraction of clinically useful information from medical ultrasound scans.

Professor Alison Noble CBE FREng FRS
Elected 2017

ORCID

Committees Participated Role
Science, Industry and Translation Committee January 2026 - December 2027 Deputy Chair
International Committee February 2024 - November 2026 Co-Chair
General Purposes Committee January 2024 - November 2026 Member
Science in the age of AI July 2023 - May 2024 Chair
Council May 2023 - November 2026 Foreign Secretary
Committee Advising Council on Honorary Candidates January 2023 - November 2026 Ex-Officio
Council November 2022 - April 2023 Member
Industry Fellowships Joint Panel January 2020 - December 2024 Chair
Sectional Committee 0: Computer sciences November 2018 - October 2020 Member
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Working Group 2018 January 2018 - December 2019 Chair
Sectional Committee 4: Engineering and Materials Science December 2017 - November 2018 Member
Research Appointment Panel A(ii) December 2016 - December 2018 Member
Paul Instrument Fund Committee January 2015 - December 2028 Member