Alison NOBLE

• Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford, UK
• Vice President and Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, UK
• Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering (2008) and of the Royal Society (2017)
• National honours recognition: OBE (2013), CBE (2023)

Professor Alison Noble CBE FREng FRS is currently the Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oxford and a Vice President and Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society.

Alison has worked in industry and academia. Her academic research interests are at the inter-disciplinary interface of artificial intelligence (computer vision) and healthcare imaging. She has worked with clinical partners in the UK, India, and Kenya on translational AI-based imaging science, and commercialised some of her group’s research on ultrasound AI via a spinout which is now used in clinics worldwide. A former ERC Advanced Grant recipient (2016-23), Alison was awarded a UKRI Turing AI World-Leader Researcher Fellowship themed around human-AI collaboration in healthcare imaging in 2023. Recent personal recognition awards include: Distinguished Fellow, British Machine Vision Association (2022); Gabor Medal, Royal Society (2019); and the MICCAI Society Enduring Impact Award (2019).

Alison is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering (2008) and of the Royal Society (2017).  She is a former President of the society in her field (MICCAI) and is a current trustee of HDRUK and the Oxford Trust.  Alison received an OBE in 2013 and a CBE for services to engineering and biomedical imaging in the 2023 King’s Birthday Honours List.

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