Lionel Tarassenko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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electrical engineer
Date of Birth: 17-Apr-1957
Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Profession: engineer
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Lionel Tarassenko
- Lionel Tarassenko, (born 17 April 1957) is a British engineer and academic, who is a leading expert in the application of signal processing and machine learning to healthcare.
- He is the current Head of Department of Engineering Science (Dean of Engineering) at the University of Oxford.
- He has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Oxford since 1997 and is a Professorial Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.
- He has been invited by the Vice-Chancellor Louise Richardson to oversee the development of Parks College, a new graduate society in the University, as founding president.Tarassenko is the author of over 230 journal papers, 200 conference papers, 3 books and over 30 granted patents.
- 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.
- He is also the R&D Director and Chair of the Strategic Advisory Board of Sensyne Health, a digital health company which floated on AIM in August 2018.
- He is a director of the University’s wholly owned Technology Transfer company, Oxford University Innovation.
- He was the editor-in-chief of the 2018 Topol Review of NHS Technology and its impact on the workforce.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, and he has led the Technology & Digital Health theme in the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre since its inception in 2007.
- 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”.
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