Professor Lord Tarassenko CBE FREng FMedSci

Lord Tarassenko CBE FREng FMedSci is a world-leading expert in the application of AI to healthcare. The system which he designed for patient monitoring in critical care was the first machine learning system to gain FDA approval (in 2008). He was elected to the Chair of Electrical Engineering and to a Professorial Fellowship at St John’s College, at the University of Oxford in 1997. He was the driving force behind the creation of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME) which he directed from its opening in April 2008 to October 2012. He was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2000, and to a Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2013. In 1996, he was awarded the first British Computer Society (BCS) Medal for machine learning. He received the 2006 Silver Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering for his contribution to British engineering leading to market exploitation.

Professor Lord Tarassenko is the author of 320 journal papers, 240 conference papers, 3 books and 32 granted patents. He was a director of Oxford University Innovation from 2012 to 2025 and has founded four University spin-out companies. He was the Head of the Department of Engineering Science (Dean of Engineering) from 2014 to 2019. He is now the Founding President of Reuben College, the University of Oxford’s newest college. He was the Editor-in-Chief for the Topol Review “Preparing the healthcare workforce to deliver the digital future” (2019). He was made a CBE for services to engineering in the 2012 New Year’s Honours List and appointed to the House of Lords as non-party political peer in June 2024.