Our staff are interested in a variety of research avenues and can be contacted for further collaboration.
Apart from Craig Vear, Adrian Hazzard, Anna Shvets and Lawrence Cliffe listed on this page, the members list also includes Steve Benford, Alan Chamberlain, Juan Martinez Avila, John Richards, Glenn McGarry, Fabrizio Poltronieri and Solomiya Moroz.
Adrian Hazzard
Adrian Hazzard is a Senior Research Fellow in human computer interaction working principally at the intersection of computer science, artistic practice, human-machine interaction and user experience design. As an experienced interdisciplinary researcher, he typically collaborates with creative practitioners to design, develop, deploy and evaluate novel digital experiences and services.
Adrian is also the Training Programme Manager for the Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training, supporting cohorts of interdisciplinary PhD students researching topics related to digital technologies and personal data.
Hazzard is a trained and experienced performer and composer, having toured in a range of musical settings and scored music for independent films and theatre.
Anna Shvets
Anna Shvets is an assistant professor in interactive music technology at the University of Nottingham. With a PhD in computational musicology, she works at the intersection of classical music, virtual reality (VR), and generative AI.
An award-winning composer and programmer, she has developed innovative music XR applications and advanced AI models, including conditional GANs and spiking ConvLSTMs. She is a certified deep learning engineer, a full-stack developer, and holds a French CNU lecturer qualification. A pioneer in volumetric music composition, her work has been showcased at many international festivals and conferences.
Her contributions to research and creative technology have been recognized by AAAI and supported by national and industry grants. She has over a decade of experience reviewing for major digital arts events and remains a leading voice in AI-driven immersive music.
Craig Vear
Craig Vear is Professor of Music and Computer Science at the University of Nottingham split between music and the mixed reality lab.
His research is naturally hybrid as he draws together the fields of music, digital performance, creative technologies, Artificial Intelligence, creativity, gaming, mixed reality and robotics. He has been engaged in practice-based research with emerging technologies for nearly three decades, and was editor for The Routledge International Handbook of Practice-Based Research, published in 2022.
His recent monograph The Digital Score: creativity, musicianship and innovation, was published by Routledge in 2019, and he is Series Editor of Springer’s Cultural Computing Series. In 2021 he was awarded a €2Million ERC Consolidator Grant to continue to develop his Digital Score research.
Laurence Cliffe
Laurence Cliffe is an intermedia artist, researcher and creative technologist often working in collaboration with a variety of organisations, companies and institutions.
His practice-based research explores past and present futures, working with sound, open source hardware and software, radio transmissions, live data and custom digital processing techniques.
Influenced by fields including cybernetics, artificial intelligence and science fiction, he often operates within the margins of technological fallibility in order to expose hidden content and generate indeterminate results that can be used as a foundation for further creative research and exploration.
He is currently a Research Fellow based at the University of Nottingham's Mixed Reality Laboratory and Virtual and Immersive Production (VIP) Studio.
Alan Chamberlain
Dr Alan Chamberlain is Principal Research Fellow in the School of Computer Science and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Music at the University of Nottingham. He is an interdisciplinary researcher with a focus on Human Computer Interaction (HCI).
He has been an investigator on numerous funding awards, on topics ranging from Design, AI and Public Engagement, through to Music, Composition and AI, and AI, Theatre and Performance. His compositions have been played on the BBC, used as soundtracks for award winning films, been performed live and shown as recorded pieces at international conferences.
In 2019 he was the Chair of the Audio Mostly conference hosted at the University of Nottingham - he is a member of the steering committee for this conference series. He was a Co-Director of the AHRC Theatre, AI and Ludic Tech Network, was a Sector Lead for the Creative Industries as part of the TAS project and is a member of the RAI UK Public Engagement and Outreach Pillar.