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 in the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division. He is Professor of e-Research in the Oxford e-Research Centre, an institute of the Department of Engineering Science, and an Honorary Visiting Professor at the Royal Northern College of Music, where he is Technical Director of the Centre for Practice and Research in Science and Music (PRiSM).David was Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre from 2012-17. He has co-founded three interdisciplinary initiatives: the PETRAS National Centre of Excellence for IoT Systems Cybersecurity, which was the world’s largest socio-technical research centre focused on the future implementation of the Internet of Things; the Software Sustainability Institute, cultivating better and more sustainable software to enable world-class research; and PRiSM, The Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music at the Royal Northern College of Music. He has also been involved in running the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School since 2011.David's personal research is at the intersection of music, maths, machines and AI, empowering the creative human. From an early background in electronics and computer science, David became closely involved in the Hypertext, Web, and computational research communities, in pervasive computing, and in digital social research. His broad range of interdisciplinary research has investigated emerging technologies in large scale distributed and sociotechnical systems, with an interest in society, technology and creativity, while also focusing on innovation in the process of scholarship. Today he focuses on new methods of digital scholarship, innovation in knowledge infrastructure, and AI cybersecurity.