Professor Mark D. Plumbley is Head of the Department of Informatics at KIng's College London and a Professor of Signal Processing. 

Professor Plumbley is well known for his work on analysis and processing of sound and audio, using a wide range of signal processing, machine learning and AI methods. He led the first international data challenge on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE), and is a co-editor of the book "Computational Analysis of Sound Scenes and Events" (Springer, 2018). He holds an EPSRC Fellowship in AI for Sound, on automatic recognition of everyday sounds, he co-leads the EPSRC-funded Noise Network Plus, and is part of the EPSRC AI Hub in Generative Models.

After receiving his PhD from the University of Cambridge, Mark first joined King’s College London in 1991, initially as a Lecturer in Neural Networks in the Department of Mathematics, moving to the then Department of Computer Science and later the Department of Electronic Engineering. In 2002 he moved to Queen Mary, University of London, where he later became Professor and Director of the Centre for Digital Music. He joined the University of Surrey in 2015, as Professor of Signal Processing in the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), where he was the founding Head of the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, from 2019 to 2022. In 2025 he re-joined King’s College London as the Head of Department of Informatics.

Mark is a Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing, and a Fellow of the IET and IEEE.

Research

• AI for Sound
• Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events
• Generative Audio AI
• Analysis, recognition and generation of sound