CV

Education

• PhD in Design Engineering, Imperial College London, UK, 2026 (expected)
• BSc in Music and Sound Recording (Tonmeister), University of Surrey, UK, 2021
  • Modules including: Audio Signal Processing, Audio Programming (C++), Audio Engineering, Recording Techniques, Electronics, Acoustics
  • Recording of popular and classical music including studio sessions and on location (e.g. Cambridge University Windo Orchestra, Oxford University Sinfonietta, University of Surrey Gospel Choir)

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

Techniques for Closely-Coupled Sensing and Actuation in Digital Musical Instruments

Davison, Matthew, Adam Schmidt, and Andrew McPherson. ‘Techniques for Closely-Coupled Sensing and Actuation in Digital Musical Instruments’. Paper presented at NIME 2026. Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, June 2026.

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.

Workshop Papers and Demos

Haptics for Bidirectional Interaction with AI Musical Mappings

Davison, Matthew. ‘Haptics for Bidirectional Interaction with AI Musical Mappings’. AI for Haptics and Haptics for AI: Challenges and Opportunities Workshop at the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’26) (Barcelona, Spain), April 2026.

Development of Open-Source Hardware for Digital Musical Instrument Design

Davison, Matthew. ‘Development of Open-Source Hardware for Digital Musical Instrument Design’. Are We Doing Enough? Sharing Design and Manufacturing Expertise Across Open Source Hardware Communities: Workshop at the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’26) (Barcelona, Spain), April 2026.

Self-Sensing Transducers for Tactile Interaction with Digital Musical Instruments

Davison, Matthew, Anna Silver, and Andrew P. McPherson. ‘Self-Sensing Transducers for Tactile Interaction with Digital Musical Instruments’. Demo presented at CHIME Annual Conference 2024 (Milton Keynes, UK), December 2024.

A Self-sensing Vibrotactile Transducer for Bidirectional Tactile Interaction

Davison, Matthew, and Andrew P. McPherson. ‘A Self-Sensing Vibrotactile Transducer for Bidirectional Tactile Interaction’. Work-in-progress paper and interactive demo presented at Eurohaptics. June 2024. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12549408.