Dr Louis Busby

Biography

I am currently a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for the MSc Data Science and AI for the Creative Industries at the Creative Computing Institute, UAL. Since starting in 20/21 academic year I have developed and delivered a novel curriculum across multiple units, maintaining high levels of student satisfaction and growing recruitment year on year (220 applicants by 4th year). Previously at the Embodied Audio Visual Interaction Group at Goldsmiths, London, I researched feature engineering of motion sensor data for users of interactive machine learning software and built web frameworks to support musicians using machine learning. My most recent commericial post was as Senior Developer for London-based artificial intelligence firm HeresyAI, where I built out multiple propositions applying AI to the areas of music and video, sport and FinTech.

I am the main developer for the MIMIC creative ML Web platform, used by over 70k students at UAL and online. I has secured multiple grants from Google (AMI and Tensorflow.js) to fund the above projects. I am also the Award Lead on a Network Grant from the Alan Turing Institute with which I have engaged the local community with open source tools for AI music creation. Freelance projects undertaken have included generative composition and remix, music information retrieval, gesture recognition, machine learning, electromechanical instrument design and construction, projection mapping, computer vision, augmented reality, concatenatative synthesis, generative lyricism and digital sound design. This work, both individual and collaborative, have been widely exhibited across London, notably at the Royal Festival Hall, and in Dublin, New York and Austria. The robotic drummer I developed for my PhD, Mortimer, has appeared on the BBC’s Christmas Lectures and on Channel Five’s The Gadget Show.