Professor Mike Brady

Medical Vision Laboratory, University of Oxford
Email: jmb@robots.ox.ac.uk
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Mike Brady is BP Professor of Information Engineering in the Department of Engineering Science as well as a Fellow of Keble College in the University of Oxford.

He joined Oxford University as the foundation Professor of Information Engineering in August 1985 from MIT, where he had been Senior Research Scientist in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. During his time in Oxford, he and his colleagues have established the Robotics Research Laboratory and, more recently, as his research interests shifted to Medical Image Analysis and minimally-invasive surgery, he and Alison Noble have established the Medical Vision Laboratory (MVL)

During his time in Oxford, Mike has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineers, a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and a Fellow of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence. His Oxford chair was endowed by BP (£1.2M). Mike was awarded the Faraday Medal for the year 2000, and a Third Millennium medal of the IEEE. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Essex, Manchester, Liverpool, Southampton, and the Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse. He is an honorary professor at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He was Professeur Invité at INRIA, Sophia Antipolis during 1994-5 and 1996-7, attached to the Epidaure Research Group headed by Professor Nicholas Ayache.