CV

Education

• PhD in Design Engineering, Imperial College London, UK, 2026 (expected)
• BSc in Music and Sound Recording (Tonmeister), University of Surrey, UK, 2021

Work

• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Imperial College London, UK, 10/2023 - present
  • Assisting with delivery of labs for Physical Computing and Electronics 2 modules (both 2nd year undergraduate).
  • Assessment including marking of lab orals, presentations, portfolios and exams (including other modules such as Computing 1 and Materials).
• Embedded Software Engineer, DiGiCo UK Ltd., UK, 07/2021 - 08/2023
  • Development of C and C++ for digital mixing consoles for live sound.
  • Design and upkeep of systems running on various platforms (NXP iMX RT, Xilinx Zynq, etc.) using baremetal, FreeRTOS, embedded Linux.
  • Schematic review, use of standard testin equipment (oscilloscopes, Audio Precision, etc.)
• Software Test Engineer, DiGiCo UK Ltd., UK, 07/2019 - 07/2020

Publications

Design Explorations of Instruments and Interactions with Bidirectional Haptic Couplings

Matthew Davison and Andrew McPherson. ‘Design Explorations of Instruments and Interactions with Bidirectional Haptic Couplings’. Paper presented at CHI ’26. Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 2026.

Impedance Synthesis for Hybrid Analog-Digital Audio Effects

Francisco Bernardo, Matthew Davison, and Andrew McPherson. ‘Impedance Synthesis for Hybrid Analog-Digital Audio Effects’. Paper presented at DAFx25. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, 2025.

On mapping as a technoscientific practice in digital musical instruments

McPherson, Andrew, Landon Morrison, Matthew Davison, and Marcelo M. Wanderley. ‘On Mapping as a Technoscientific Practice in Digital Musical Instruments’. Journal of New Music Research 53, nos 1–2 (2024): 110–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2024.2442356.

A Self-Sensing Haptic Actuator for Tactile Interaction with Physical Modelling Synthesis

Davison, Matthew, Andrew McPherson, Craig Webb, and Michele Ducceschi. ‘A Self-Sensing Haptic Actuator for Tactile Interaction with Physical Modelling Synthesis’. Paper presented at NIME 2024. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, September 2024. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13904955.