Professor Elaine Chew

Elaine Chew is Professor and Founder/Director of the Digital Music Theranostics Lab at King's College London's School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences. She received PhD/SM degrees in Operations Research at MIT, BAS in Mathematical/Computational Sciences (honors) and Music Performance (distinction) from Stanford, and FTCL/LTCL piano diplomas. She has over 25 years' experience in music information retrieval (math-models, expressivity, structure, cognition) and since 2016 is pioneering its integration with cardiovascular science, researching music representations of cardiac signals, music-heart mechanisms, and music-based cardiovascular diagnostics and therapeutics. Her research has been recognised by the ERC (ADG COSMOS, POC HEART.FM), Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year 2023 (Art & Science), NSF CAREER/PECASE, Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Before joining KCL, she held faculty/researcher posts at CNRS-STMS (IRCAM, Paris), QMUL (London), USC (Los Angeles).