on neural network analysis of sleep disorders. His research on jet engine health monitoring was awarded the Rolls-Royce Chairman's Award for Technical Innovation in 2001 and the Sir Henry Royce High Value Patent Award in 2008. His work on mobile phones for healthcare was awarded the E-health 2005 Innovation Award for “best device to empower patients”. He received the 2006 Silver Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering for his contribution to British engineering leading to market exploitation and he won the Institute of Engineering & Technology IT Award, also in 2006. In 2010, he gave the prestigious Vodafone lecture on mobile health at the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Centenary Lecture on Biomedical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. He received the 2015 Martin Black Prize from the Institute of Physics for the best paper in Physiological Measurement He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to engineering and a 'Chevalier dans l'Ordre national du Mérite' by the French state in 2021. Personal life Tarassenko is married to Dr Anne Tarassenko. He has 3 children and 3 step-children. He is a Lay Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. References External links Oxford BioSignals Ltd (founding director) An Engineering Biography - Lionel Tarassenko FREng Ingenia, Issue 30, Mar 2007 IdeasLab 2014 - Lionel Tarassenko - Self Monitoring Digital Health World Economic Forum, Davos, 2014 1957 births Living people British electrical engineers Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology Alumni of Keble College, Oxford Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of St John's College, Oxford Presidents of Reuben College, Oxford