Lionel Tarassenko

The Lord Tarassenko
Tarassenko in 2019
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
10 June 2024
Life peerage
Personal details
Born (1957-04-17) 17 April 1957 (age 67)
Paris, France
NationalityBritish
Political partyNone (crossbencher)
SpouseAnne Tarassenko
Children3 children, 3 step-children
Alma materKeble College, Oxford
Awards
  • British Computer Society Medal (1996)
  • IEE Mather Premium (1996)[1]
  • Rolls-Royce Chairman's Award (2001)
  • E-health 2005 Innovation Award (2005)
  • Silver Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2006)[2]
  • Institute of Engineering & Technology IT Award (2006)
  • Sir Henry Royce High Value Patent Award (2008)
  • Martin Black Prize (2015)[3]
  • Oxford Trust Outstanding Achievement Award for contribution to innovation and society (2019)[4]
Scientific career
FieldsBiomedical Engineering, Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Digital Health
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford

Lionel Tarassenko, Baron Tarassenko, CBE, FREng, FMedSci, FIET (born 17 April 1957), is a British engineer, academic and life peer, who is a leading expert in the application of signal processing and machine learning to healthcare. He is President of Reuben College, Oxford.

He was previously Head of Department of Engineering Science (Dean of Engineering) at the University of Oxford, succeeded by Ronald A. Roy.[5] Towards the end of his time as Dean, the Department rose to number 1 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.[6]

In 1988, he was appointed as the first Tutorial Fellow in Engineering at St Hugh's College, Oxford and was a member of the college for over nine years.[7] Tarassenko was elected Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Oxford in 1997[8] and was a Professorial Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, from 1997 to 2019.[9] In 2019 he was invited by the Vice-Chancellor Louise Richardson to oversee the development of Reuben College, the University's 39th college.[5][10] He is also a Pro-Vice Chancellor[11] and the Chair of the Management Committee of the Maison Française d’Oxford.[12]

Tarassenko is the author of over 280 journal papers, 200 conference papers, 3 books and over 30 granted patents.[13] He has supervised 65 doctoral students. He has been a founder director of four University spin-out companies, the latest being Oxehealth in September 2012.[14] He was the R&D Director and Chair of the Strategic Advisory Board of Sensyne Health, an AIM-listed company from 2018 to 2022.[15] He is a director of the University’s wholly owned Technology Transfer company, Oxford University Innovation.[16] He was the editor-in-chief of the 2018 Topol Review of NHS Technology and its impact on the workforce.[17]

Tarassenko was the driving force behind the creation of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME) at the University of Oxford, which he directed from its opening in April, 2008 to October, 2012. He established an £8m Centre of Excellence in Medical Engineering within the IBME,[18] and led the Technology & Digital Health theme in the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre from its inception in 2007 until 2022.[19] Under his leadership, the IBME grew from 110 to 220 academic researchers and it was awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher Education in 2015 for “new collaborations between engineering and medicine delivering benefit to patients”.[20]

  1. ^ EPSRC webpage
  2. ^ Royal Academy of Engineering News
  3. ^ Institute of Physics
  4. ^ Oxford Trust Outstanding Achievement Award
  5. ^ a b Andrew Ffrench (13 December 2018). "Oxford University is planning new graduate college". Oxford Mail.
  6. ^ Times Higher Education World University Rankings
  7. ^ "Professor Lionel Tarassenko, FIET CBE FREng FMedSci". St Hugh's College. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  8. ^ The Brick: the newsletter for Keble alumni; Hilary term 2012, p. 3
  9. ^ St John's College, Oxford
  10. ^ "Parks College". University of Oxford.
  11. ^ University Officers
  12. ^ Management Committee of the Maison Française d’Oxford
  13. ^ Google Scholar
  14. ^ Oxehealth
  15. ^ Sensyne Health
  16. ^ At Oxford University Innovation Profile
  17. ^ Article in NHS Health Education England
  18. ^ Centre of Excellence in Medical Engineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford
  19. ^ NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
  20. ^ Queen's Anniversary Prize

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