Prof. Alison NOBLE
Co-Director
Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering in Department of Engineering Science and a Professorial Fellow of St Hilda's College, at the University of Oxford, UK
Professor Noble’s research interests sit at the interface of AI with computer vision and clinical medicine. In recent years, her research group has been at the forefront of international thinking on how to bring machine learning to ultrasound working closely with clinical research groups in Oxford and overseas. This includes global health ultrasound applications research with groups in India and Africa, and pioneering research on multi-modal ultrasound and sonography data science. In 2016, she was the recipient of a 7-year ERC Advanced Grant entitled “Perception Ultrasound by Learning Sonographer Experience (PULSE)”, to advance understanding of how to develop next-generation ultrasound systems by utilising machine learning. In 2023, she was the recipient of a 5-year UKRI Turing AI World-leading Researcher Fellowship on human-AI collaboration and federated learning for international research partnerships in healthcare imaging. She has attracted international awards and distinctions including the BMVA Distinguished Researcher award (2022), the Royal Society Gabor Medal (2019), the MICCAI Society Enduring Impact Award (2019), and the International Federation of Medical & Biological Engineering Laura Bassi Award (2015) in recognition of her contributions to biomedical engineering.