Stephen Roddy is a Composer, and Engineer working in Sound and Music Computing (SMC) at the Radical Humanities Lab and the Department of Digital Humanities at University College Cork (UCC). He is programme director for the MA in Digital Arts and Humanities at UCC and holds a Ph.D. in sonification: the use of sound to perceptualise data and convey information, from Trinity College Dublin (TCD). Stephen’s research blends methods from engineering design with music composition and performance to explore the application of sonification techniques, generative systems, and network technologies, in both sonic interaction design and sound and music computing contexts. It is theoretically grounded with reference to cybernetics, embodied cognition, and posthumanism.

Stephen’s technical work is currently focused on the development of sonification solutions for the Internet of Sounds. His previous technical work has involved the design of auditory display solutions for large-scale IoT networks and investigated the integration of generative systems, cybernetic design principles, and artificial intelligence/ machine learning (AI/ML) techniques in automated music synthesis contexts. Much of this work was carried out under an IRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at CONNECT: the Research Ireland Centre for Future Networks and Communications, at TCD, 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. As a member of the committee on Ethically Aligned Design in the Arts (under the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems), he contributed to the IEEE Standards Authority Report on Ethically Aligned Approaches to AI in the Arts.

Stephen maintains a vibrant and diverse creative and performing arts practice which forms a core component of his research activity. His artistic projects span a variety of media and styles, including music composition and performance, generative and data-driven music, and sound art installation and performance. His work, described as majestic and sweeping yet beautifully unsettling, is frequently performed and installed at home and abroad. His most recent musical releases Leviathan, Corpus/Mimesis, and Stardust Sonata are all available through Fiadh Productions. Recent events have included the ElettroAQustica 10 in L’Aquila, 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,