Artificial Intelligence (AI) is shaping the future of many professions, and the creative industry is no exception. My research examines how to harness AI for creativity and educate future generations of AI-ready professionals.

I have been developing and composing music using AI since the 1980s. In 1995, I defended what is likely the first PhD thesis in the UK on developing AI for music at the University of Edinburgh. I championed the application of neo-Darwinian evolutionary algorithms to model the origins of music and the development of bio-inspired computational models for musical creativity.