Elaine Chew is Principal Investigator of the ERC AdG COSMOS and ERC PoC HEART.FM projects hosted by the CNRS at the STMS (Sciences et Technologies de la Musique et du Son) joint research lab located at IRCAM (Insitut de Recherche Coordination Acoustique/Musique) in Paris, France. She is also past recipient of a PECASE and an NSF CAREER Award, and fellowships at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, in the US. Her research centers on the mathematical modeling and computational analysis of music structures, with recent applications to cardiac signal analysis. She received PhD and SM degrees from the MIT Operations Research Center, BAS in Mathematical/Computational Sciences (honors) and Music Performance (distinction) from Stanford. As an academic, she has been Professor of Digital Media in EECS at Queen Mary University of London, and tenured Associate Professor and Viterbi Early Career Chair in ISE at the University of Southern California.