Becky Shipley is Professor of Healthcare Engineering in UCL Mechanical Engineering, Director of the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Vice Dean (Health) within the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences. She did her Undergraduate studies, DPhil (PhD) and Junior Research Fellowship in applied mathematics at the University of Oxford before joining UCL in 2012 as a Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering (promoted to Professor in 2019). During COVID-19, Becky co-led the UCL-Ventura CPAP programme with colleagues in engineering and medical sciences across UCL and UCL Hospitals, delivering non-invasive breathing aids to the NHS and globally. The team was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering President's Special Awards for Pandemic Service (2020), the Health Service Journal Awards 2020 Acute Sector Innovation of the Year, the Alex Moulton Award (2021) from the Institution of Engineering Designers, and Becky was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2021.

In her roles as Director of the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering, Vice Dean (Health), Becky coordinates interdisciplinary research, innovation and knowledge exchange within healthcare engineering across UCL and its partner hospitals within the UCL Partners academic health system. Becky is also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Technology, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, Trustee of the International Medical Education Trust 2000 and a Non-Executive Director at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Trust.