David De Roure
David De Roure is Professor of e-Research at the University of Oxford, where he directs the Digital Humanities programme in TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities).
David's personal research is at the intersection of music, maths, machines and AI, empowering the creative human in music composition and performance. He is a Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute, engaged in music and AI, Humanities & Data Science, and AI for Arts. He is also Technical Director of the Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music (PRiSM) at the Royal Northern College of Music.
David's work is distinctively interdisciplinary: he is a co-founder of PETRAS, the world’s largest socio-technical research centre focused on the future implementation of the Internet of Things, and the Software Sustainability Institute. His recent research projects include The Theory and Practice of Social Machines (SOCIAM), Fusing Audio and Semantic Technologies (FAST), and Transforming Musicology.