Caroline Hargrove | |
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Born | Caroline Hogue[1] |
Alma mater | Queen's University University of Cambridge (PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Babylon Health McLaren Applied Technologies |
Thesis | Computer modelling of the motion of granular particles (1993) |
Doctoral advisor | David Newland |
Caroline Hargrove CBE FREng (née Hogue[1]) is Chief Technical Officer of Ceres Power. She previously served as CTO at Zedsen, Babylon Health, McLaren Applied Technologies and as a visiting professor at the University of Oxford.[2][3]
Hargrove is from Montreal, Quebec.[4] She studied mathematics and mechanical engineering at Queen's University, Ontario, which she graduated in 1989.[1][5] She moved to the University of Cambridge for her postgraduate studies, earning a PhD[6] for research on computer modelling of granular materials supervised by David Newland in 1993.[7][5]
After her postgraduate studies, Hargrove remained at the University of Cambridge as a Fellow.[8] She joined McLaren in 1997, where she worked in vehicle dynamics.[9] For ten years she was responsible for the McLaren F1 simulator.[8] She was one of the founders of McLaren Applied Technologies.[10] In 2013 Hargrove was appointed Technical Director at McLaren Applied Technologies.[11] Her job involved R&D strategy and IP development.[12] She championed the use of big data in motor racing.[13] Here she looks to translate the technology of McLaren F1 to medical services, developing analysis and support tools.[14][15][16] She works with Olympic athletes and the UK track cycling team.[1][9][17][18] She created a data-logger that mounts under the saddle to collect information of speed, power, tilt and torque, then send it to the coach.[4] Her team translated the 3D accelerometers from Formula One cars into sensors for human use, working with GlaxoSmithKline to monitor patient's response to drugs.[19][20]
In 2014 she appeared on BBC Radio 4, where she discussed how Britain became a world leader in Formula One cars.[21] In 2016 she announced the use of their simulator for testing domestic vehicles.[22] In 2016 she was named one of the Women's Engineering Society and The Daily Telegraph's Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering.[23]
In 2018 she became the CTO of Babylon Health, focussing on the use of AI to diagnose patients.[24]
In April 2021 she was named as CTO of Zedsen, a UK based startup that provides non-invasive blood sugar monitoring technology.[25]
Hargrove is an advocate for increasing the number of girls and women in engineering through visits to schools and on-site work experience.[26][27]
Hargrove was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2017.[28][29] She was announced as one of the Top 50 Innovators in the World in 2017 by Codex.[30] She is a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford.[29]
She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to engineering.[31]