Professor Lionel Tarassenko
Professor Lionel Tarassenko
Professorial Fellow in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Biography
Professor Tarassenko gained the degrees of BA in Engineering Science in 1978, and DPhil in Medical Engineering in 1985, both from the University of Oxford. He then held a number of positions in academia and industry, before taking up a University Lectureship in Oxford in 1988. Since then, he has devoted most of his research effort to the development of signal processing techniques and their application to diagnostic systems, especially in the context of medical problems.
Professor Tarassenko has been the holder of the Chair in Electrical Engineering at Oxford University since October 1997. He was elected to a Fellowship of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE) in 1996, when he was also awarded the IEE Mather Premium for his work on neural networks, and to a Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2000.
He received a British Computer Society Medal in 1996 for his work on neural network analysis of sleep disorders. His research on jet engine health monitoring was awarded the Rolls-Royce Chairman's Award for Technical Innovation in 2001 (and the Sir Henry Royce High Value Patent Award in 2008). His work on mobile phones for healthcare was awarded the E-health 2005 Innovation Award for "best device to empower patients".
He was awarded the 2006 Silver Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering for his contribution to British engineering leading to market exploitation and he has also won the Institute of Engineering & Technology IT Award for "Data Fusion Software for Early Detection of Patient Deterioration", also in 2006. Professor Tarassenko was a founder director of Oxford BioSignals Ltd in May 2000 and a founder director of e-San Ltd (now t+ Medical) in February 2002.
He is a member of the Department of Health's Programme Management Committee for Health Technology Devices and of the Wellcome Trust Technology Transfer Panel. He is the Bioengineering theme leader for the joint NHS/University Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (2007-2011), and will become the director of the Department's new Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering in September 2008.
