18 Facts About Alison Noble

Julia Alison Noble was born on 28 January 1965 and is a British engineer.

Alison Noble has been Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oxford and a fellow of St Hilda's College since 2011, and Associate Head of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division at the university.

Alison Noble was director of the Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering from 2012 to 2016.

Julia Alison Noble was born on 28 January 1965 in Nottingham, England, to James Bryan Noble and Patricia Ann Noble.

Alison Noble was educated at Maidstone Grammar School for Girls in Kent and was an undergraduate student at St Hugh's College, Oxford, where she was awarded a first-class Bachelor of Arts degree in Engineering Science in 1986 followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1989 for research on computer vision and image segmentation supervised by J Michael Brady.

Alison Noble returned to the University of Oxford as a lecturer in 1995 to work on medical applications of computer vision and was promoted to Professor in 2001, as the first female Statutory Professor in Engineering at Oxford.

Alison Noble has made contributions to medical image computing, where her research interests combine knowledge of medical imaging and computational science to support decision-making in clinical medicine.

Alison Noble's research has advanced understanding of automatic extraction of clinically useful information from medical ultrasound scans and developed machine learning solutions to key problems in biomedical image analysis.

Alison Noble has supervised or co-supervised over 50 successful PhD students to completion including Miklos Gyongy, Nathan Cahill, Ramon Casero Canas, and Grace Vesom.

Alison Noble's research has been funded by the European Research Council, the Medical Research Council, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the National Institute for Health Research.

Alison Noble was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2017.

Alison Noble was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Birthday Honours, elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2008 and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology in 2001.

Alison Noble was promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to engineering and biomedical imaging.

Alison Noble is a trustee of the Oxford Trust, a charity established by the founders of Oxford Instruments to encourage the study, application and communication of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Alison Noble is a trustee of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and served as President of the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Interventions Society from 2013 to 2016.

Alison Noble was the first recipient of the Laura Bassi Award of the International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering in 2015.

In 2019, Professor Alison Noble was awarded the Gabor Medal by the Royal Society "for developing solutions to a number of key problems in biomedical image analysis and substantially advancing automatic extraction of clinically useful information from medical ultrasound scans".

Alison Noble was a coxswain for the Oxford University Women's Lightweight Rowing Club in the Henley Boat Races in 1985.