Dr. Stephen Roddy is a media engineering researcher specialising in sonification. His research combines media engineering methods with experimental music composition through the lens of critical technical practice. He is currently focused on sonification for the Internet of Sounds (IoS) and ethical approaches to artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in creative audio. His work is informed by cybernetics, human-computer interaction, and radical embodied cognitive science. Stephen holds a PhD in Engineering from Trinity College Dublin. He lectures in the Department of Digital Humanities at University College Cork (UCC), where he is also Programme Director for the MA in Digital Arts and Humanities and a member of the Radical Humanities Laboratory.

Stephen’s previous projects have explored auditory display solutions for large-scale IoT networks, as well as applications of generative systems, cybernetic design principles, and AI/ML techniques in automated music synthesis. This work was carried out under an IRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at CONNECT: the Research Ireland Centre for Future Networks and Communications, and subsequently at the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering at TCD. His work is widely disseminated through peer-reviewed journal publications, conference proceedings, and book chapters. He contributed to an IEEE Standards Authority report on ethically aligned approaches to AI in the arts, developed under the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems.

Stephen maintains an active artistic practice that is central to his research activity. His work includes music composition and performance, generative and data-driven music, and sound art installation and performance. His most recent musical releases Leviathan, Corpus/Mimesis, and Stardust Sonata are all available through Fiadh Productions. Recent performances and installations of his work have included the ElettroAQustica 10 festival in L’Aquila, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, and the Earth Rising Festival at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

•  'Auditory Display for Large-scale IoT Networks' at the CONNECT Centre, Trinity College Dublin. Research Ireland (IRC) Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship (2017-2019).

• 'Embodied Sonification' at Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin PhD Studentship (2013-2015).
• Various small travel grants at UCC and TCD etc. 

Sound & Music Computing, Sonification, Internet of Sounds (IoS), Auditory Display, Media Engineering, Embedded Systems, Audio Engineering, Computer Music, Sensor Networks, Music, Sound Synthesis, Experimental Music, Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Posthumanism, Sound Art, Interartive Art, Media Art, Digital Art, Music Technology, Human-computer Interaction, Creative Technoology, Cybernetics, Embodied Cognition,