About David
Professor David De Roure is Academic Director of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Division of the University of Oxford, and Academic Director of the Laboratory for AI Security Research (LASR) in the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division. He is Professor of e-Research in the Oxford e-Research Centre, and previously an Honorary Visiting Professor David De Roure is Academic Director of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Division of the University of Oxford, and Academic Director of the Laboratory for AI Security Research (LASR) in the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division. He is Professor of e-Research in the Oxford e-Research Centre, and previously an Honorary Visiting Professor at the RNCM. David has been the founding Technical Director of PRiSM since its launch in 2017.
David’s past research projects include The Theory and Practice of Social Machines (SOCIAM), Fusing Audio and Semantic Technologies (FAST), and Transforming Musicology. His interdisciplinary research has engaged closely and collaboratively with humanities (digital humanities, digital musicology, computational creativity), engineering (Internet of Things, cybersecurity, physical computing), social sciences (Social Machines, Web Science, citizen science), information science (knowledge infrastructure, computational archival science), and computer science (large scale distributed systems, AI). Since 2018 he has had roles assisting the development of the UKRI Research and Innovation Infrastructure, particularly in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Research
External Research Roles
- Professor of e-Research, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford
Research Outputs
Written Outputs
An Asymmetric Formula for Interval Consonance and its Relation to Harmonic Coincidence
De Roure, D., Jun 2026Two-stage dissonance of the superparticular musical interval (n+1)/n.
De Roure, D., Jun 2026, The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.Understanding Piano Sight-Reading Exercises: A Score-Based Encoder-Decoder LSTM Framework
Ma, B., Fan, H., De Roure, D., Howard, E. & Thormählen, W., May 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) Music Encoding Conference (MEC) 2026.Learning to Learn: A Reflexive Case Study of PRiSM SampleRNN
Ma, B., Sargen, E., De Roure, D. & Howard, E., 2024, International Conference on AI and Musical Creativity (AIMC).What Determines the Perception of Segmentation in Contemporary Music?
Phillips, M., Stewart, A. J., Wilcoxson, J. M., Jones, L. A., Howard, E., Willcox, P., du Sautoy, M. & De Roure, D., 28 May 2020, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 11Web Resources
PRiSM Musical Audio Gesture Recognition (AGR)
Howard, E. (Producer), Fan, H. (Developer), De Roure, D. (Consultant / Advisor), Ma, B. (Consultant / Advisor) & Lewis, G. (Consultant / Advisor), 2024PRiSM SampleRNN: An Unconditional End-to-End Neural Audio Generation Model, for TensorFlow 2.
Melen, C. (Developer), Salem, S. (Producer), Howard, E. (Producer), De Roure, D. (Consultant / Advisor) & du Sautoy, M. (Consultant / Advisor), 2020Professional Activity
Public Presentations and Performance
Understanding Piano Sight-Reading Exercises: A Score-based Encoder-Decoder LSTM Framework
Ma, B. (Speaker / presenter), Fan, H. (Collaborator), Howard, E. (Director), De Roure, D. (Director) & Thormählen, W. (Director)
International Contemporary Ensemble and PRiSM: Music, AI, and Co-creation; New York
Howard, E. (Invited speaker), Salem, S. (Invited speaker), De Roure, D. (Invited speaker), Ma, B. (Invited speaker), Leeming, Z. (Invited speaker), Fan, H. (Invited speaker), Steinberg, M. (Invited speaker) & Laidlow, R. (Invited speaker)
A PRiSM in a Music Conservatoire: Interdisciplinary creative practice at the RNCM Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music
De Roure, D. (Keynote speaker)
RNCM PRiSM Future Music #4
Howard, E. (Organiser), De Roure, D. (Member of programme committee), Salem, S. (Organiser), Goves, L. (Organiser), Ma, B. (Participant), Laidlow, R. (Participant), Steinberg, M. (Participant), Knighton, S. (Participant), Sargen, E. (Participant) & Appleby, A. (Participant)
RNCM PRiSM Future Music #3
Howard, E. (Organiser), De Roure, D. (Member of programme committee), du Sautoy, M. (Member of programme committee), Climent, R. (Member of programme committee), Leeming, Z. (Member of programme committee), Akten, M. (Participant), Laidlow, R. (Participant) & Salem, S. (Organiser)
RNCM PRiSM Future Music #2
Howard, E. (Organiser), du Sautoy, M. (Member of programme committee), De Roure, D. (Member of programme committee), Salem, S. (Organiser), Laidlow, R. (Organiser), Walshe, J. (Participant), Ma, B. (Participant) & Sargen, E. (Participant)