Nigel Lovell received the B.E. (Hons) and Ph.D. degrees from UNSW Sydney, Australia. He is currently at the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering UNSW Sydney where he holds a position of Scientia Professor and Head of School. He is also the inaugural Director of a Tyree Institute of Health Engineering (IHealthE) supporting medical technology translation to meet unmet health needs. He has authored 750+ journal papers and conference proceedings, and been awarded over $USD 80 million in R&D funding. He has successfully spun-out medical device companies and taken telehealth technologies through regulatory approval pathways. Over his career he has mentored 100 PhD students and delivered more than a hundred keynote presentations. He is a Fellow of seven learned academies and societies throughout the world including the IEEE and AIMBE.
His research work has covered areas of expertise ranging from cardiac and retinal modeling, medical informatics and data analytics especially related to telehealth technologies, biological signal processing, and implantable bionics including visual prosthesis design. For this work he was awarded an IEEE Millenium Medal in 2000 and an IEEE Technical Achievement Award in 2015. For 2017 and 2018 he was the President of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS).