Dr. Mark Plumbley

Biography

Professor Mark D. Plumbley is the Head of the Department of Informatics at King's College London and a Professor of Signal Processing. His notable work focuses on the analysis and processing of sound, utilizing a wide range of signal processing and machine learning methods. He has led international challenges such as the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) and co-edited the book 'Computational Analysis of Sound Scenes and Events' (Springer, 2018). Professor Plumbley holds an EPSRC Fellowship for his research on automatic recognition of everyday sounds and co-leads EPSRC-funded projects including the Noise Network Plus and AI Hub in Generative Models. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and began his career at King's College London in 1991, where he initially worked as a Lecturer in Neural Networks before moving through various departments. He briefly worked at Queen Mary, University of London, where he became a Professor and Director of the Centre for Digital Music, and later joined the University of Surrey as a Professor in Signal Processing. In 2025, he re-joined King's College London as Head of the Department of Informatics. Professor Plumbley is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Audio Acoustic Signal Processing and a Fellow of the IET and IEEE.

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