What is synthetic data and how can it advance research and development?
This new survey is the first to comprehensively set out how synthetic data is enabling the use of data without sharing sensitive information
Monday 09 May 2022
Bio
Professor Alison Noble CBE FREng FRS is the University of Oxford Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Her academic research interests sit at the interdisciplinary interface of computer vision (a sub-discipline of artificial intelligence) and clinical medicine. In 2023 she was awarded a UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship.
In recent years, Professor Noble’s group has been at the forefront of international thinking in how to bring machine learning to ultrasound imaging working closely with clinical research groups in Oxford and overseas on novel AI-based assistive technologies and translational studies. This includes global health ultrasound applications research with groups in India and Africa, and pioneering research on multi-modal ultrasound and sonography data science.
Prof. Noble co-founded Intelligent Ultrasound Ltd to commercial research from her laboratory which was acquired by MedaPhor Group Plc (now called Intelligent Ultrasound Group) in 2017. Her research has attracted international awards and distinctions. Recent personal awards are the BMVA Distinguished Researcher award (2022), the Royal Society Gabor Medal (2019); and the MICCAI Society Enduring Impact Award (2019).
Professor Noble also has an interest in science policy (how science can influence policy, and how policy influences science) particularly related to data and AI. She chaired Royal Society data science policy working groups that have led to two Royal Society policy reports on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs). Currently she chairs a Royal Society working group looking at science in the era of AI .
Professor Noble is a former president of the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Interventions (MICCAI) Society, the international society in her field. She has served on numerous international and national award committees, UKRI (EPSRC and MRC) strategic committees and REF 2021 Subpanel 12 (Engineering).
Professor Noble is a former trustee of the Institute of Engineering Technology (IET) and a current council member and trustee of the Royal Society. She was appointed a Vice President and Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society in 2023.