Elaine Chew

Elaine Chew is Professor of Engineering in the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences and Department of Engineering at King’s College London. A pianist and operations researcher by training, Elaine is a leading authority in music representation, music information research (MIR), and music cognition, and an established performer. A pioneering researcher in MIR, she is forging new paths at the intersection of music and cardiovascular science. Her research focuses on mathematical modelling of musical structures in music and cardiac signals, with application to music-heart-brain interaction and computational arrhythmia research.

She is Principal Investigator of the ERC projects COSMOS (Computational Shaping and Modeling of Musical Structures) and HEART.FM (Maximizing the

Therapeutic Potential of Music through Tailored Therapy with Physiological Feedback in Cardiovascular Disease), using data/citizen science techniques to decipher the functions and mechanisms of music expressivity and deploying them for autonomic modulation. Her work has been recognised by the US Presidential Early Career Award in Science & Engineering (PECASE) and the National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Development Award, and Fellowships at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Elaine received PhD and SM degrees in Operations Research at MIT, a BAS

in Mathematical & Computational Sciences (honours) and Music (distinction) at Stanford, and FTCL and LTCL diplomas in Piano Performance from Trinity College, London. She has held research and teaching positions at CNRS Paris (STMS Lab, IRCAM), QMUL, USC (Los Angeles), and visiting appointments at Harvard and Lehigh.