Women in STEM Panel Session Speaker on Thursday, December 2, 2021 at 10:00

Keynote Speaker on Thursday, December 2, 2021 at 13:00

Professor Alison Noble OBE FRS FREng is the Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME), University of Oxford. 

Professor Noble’s academic research interests are in ultrasound imaging, and computational (machine-learning based) analysis of images and motivated by clinical unmet needs in western and low-and-middle-income countries healthcare settings. She received the Royal Society Gabor Medal for her inter-disciplinary research contributions in 2019, and the same year received the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Interventions (MICCAI) Society Enduring Impact award. Professor Noble co-founded Intelligent Ultrasound Ltd to commercial research from her laboratory which was acquired by MedaPhor Group Plc in 2017 (now called Intelligent Ultrasound Group).  Throughout her career Professor Noble has taken an active interest in inter-disciplinary research training, including being a director of the Oxford Centre for Doctoral Training in Healthcare Innovation (2008-12). To date she has supervised 71 PhD students to successful thesis defence.

Professor Noble is a former president of the MICCAI Society, and her recent UK national roles include Chair of the EPSRC Healthcare Technologies Strategic Advisory Team, and a member of the UK REF 2021 Subpanel 12 (Engineering). Professor Noble is an active Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the Royal Society, a Trustee of the Oxford Trust and a former Trustee of the Institute of Engineering Technology (IET). She recently (2018-19) chaired the Royal Society Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) Policy Working Group which led to the Royal Society “Protecting privacy in practice” policy report which will publish follow-on work in 2022. Professor Noble received an OBE for services to science and engineering in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in June 2013.

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