British clinical AI technology company Sensyne Health has appointed Professor Lionel Tarassenko as director of research and development and a non-executive director.

Professor Tarassenko will take on these positions alongside his current role as chairman of Sensyne Health’s scientific advisory board.

Tarassenko said: “I am hugely enthusiastic about Sensyne Health’s vision to apply machine learning to anonymised NHS data sets to improve patient care and enable new discoveries in areas of immense unmet clinical need, such as cardiovascular and cancer therapeutics.”

An expert in the application of signal processing and machine learning to medical systems, Tarassenko has been professor of electrical engineering at the University of Oxford since 1997 and is the current head of the department of engineering science (dean of engineering). He has also been a founding director of four spin-out companies from the University of Oxford.