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Mike Brady
University of Oxford
Membership Number: 12
Address: Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, 19 Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PJ, United Kingdom.
Email: jmb@robots.ox.ac.uk
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Biographical Sketch
Professor Michael Brady FRS, FREng BP Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Oxford. Professor Brady's degrees are in mathematics (BSc and MSc from Manchester University, and PhD from the Australian National University). At Manchester University, he was awarded the Renold Prize as the outstanding undergraduate of his year. Professor Brady combines his work at Oxford University, where he founded the Robotics Laboratory and the Medical Vision Laboratory (MVL), with a range of entrepreneurial activities. He is Director of the recently announced EPSRC/MRC Inter-disciplinary research consortium on “From Medical Images and Signals to Clinical Information ”. He was appointed Senior Research Scientist of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1980, and founded its world famous robotics laboratory. In 1985, he left MIT to take up a newly created Professorship in Information Engineering. Professor Brady serves as a non-executive director and Deputy Chairman of Oxford Instruments plc, as a non-executive director of AEA Technology, and, until recently, Isis Innovation (Oxford University’s intellectual property company). Professor Brady is a founding Director of the start-up companies Guidance and Control Systems, Oxford Medical Image Analysis (OMIA), and Oxford Intelligent Visualisation and Analysis (OXIVA). Professor Brady is the author of over 275 articles in computer vision, robotics, medical image analysis, and artificial intelligence, and the author or editor of nine books, including: Robot Motion (MIT Press 1984), Robotics Science (MIT Press 1989), Robotics Research (MIT Press 1984), and Mammographic Image Analysis (Kluwer, January 1999). He is Editor of the Artificial Intelligence Journal, and founding editor of the International Journal of Robotics Research. He is a member of the Editorial Board of fourteen journals, most recently Medical Image Analysis. Professor Brady was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) in 1991 and a Fellow of the Royal Society (UK) in 1997. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and a founding Fellow of the Association of Artificial Intelligence, and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. He is a member of the Conseil Scientifique de l’INRIA France. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the universities of Essex, Manchester, Liverpool, Southampton, and Paul Sabatier (Toulouse). He was awarded the IEE Faraday Medal for 2000 and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal for the UK.

University of Oxford – Robotics Research Group (RRG) of the Department of Engineering Science.
The Department of Engineering Science is large by the standards of most UK universities. It currently comprises 65 academic staff, 100 research assistants, more than 200 research students, and more than 600 undergraduate students. It publishes some 300 scientific papers annually and attracts research support from over 140 companies and agencies. It has consistently achieved top UK government ratings for research excellence. It enjoys the position of a premier graduate school, attracting numerous top-quality graduate students each year, many on scholarships such as the Rhodes, Commonwealth etc. The department provides excellent mechanical, electrical and computing technician services, and access to first class library facilities.

The RRG is one of the largest and best known in its field in Europe, with five faculty and around seventy researchers in total. The group has been involved in a number of previous Esprit BRA's (FIRST, INSIGHT, SECOND, INSIGHT-II, VIVA,IMPACT) as well as ACTS Project AC074 VANGUARD. It is currently involved in the EC LTR Project Vibes, and the EC development project SCREEN. Its faculty have consulted widely for major companies such as Siemens, IBM, GE and Sharp, and enjoy extensive industrial support for their research. Government support has included substantial grants from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Department of Trade and Industry and the UK Defence Research Agency. The RRG has extensive experience with standard computer vision and image processing techniques through applications ranging from satellite images (determining rural areas) through to inspection of agricultural products (detecting weeds). Members of the RRG have won many major prizes: the Marr Prize (ICCV) five times, SPIE Medical Image Analysis prize, and the UK best thesis award in Computer Science four times. Members of the group have started several companies (e.g. Guidance Control Systems, Mirada Solutions Ltd., Oxford Biosignals Ltd.) and have been awarded many patents. Members of the RRG have authored numerous monographs: Numerous research monographs and edited collections of articles. The most recent of these include Mammographic Image Analysis (Brady & Highnam, Kluwer), Active Contours (Blake & Isard, Springer); Analogue Neural VLSI (Tarassenko, with Prof. A. Murray - Edinburgh); A Guide to Neural Computing Applications (Tarassenko); Vision Algorithms: Theory and Practice (Zisserman, Triggs and Szeliski; Springer); Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision (Hartley and A. Zisserman; CUP. Recently, the Medical Vision Laboratory, which forms part of the RRG, was awarded an £8M EPSRC-MRC Interdisciplinary Research Consortium (IRC) , which Professor Brady directs. Dr. Alison Noble has won a MRC career development award, the only one in a department of engineering. Professor Brady has been elected FRS, FREng, FIEE, and was awarded the Institution of Electrical Engineers’ Faraday Medal – its highest award – largely for his work on medical image analysis, and the US IEEE Millennium Medal for the UK. Professors Zisserman and Murray have been awarded personal chairs, and Dr. Fitzgibbon has a Royal Society Research Fellowship.


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