David De Roure

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.