With a background in electronics and computer science, David's career has involved many interdisciplinary collaborations including chemistry, astrophysics, bioinformatics, social computing, digital libraries and archives, sensor networks, and cyber security. His current research is in Computational Musicology, Web Science (Social Machines), and Internet of Things. He is responsible for Digital Humanities at Oxford, and is a frequent speaker and writer on digital scholarship and the future of our knowledge infrastructure.