King's College London, London (United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland)
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Elaine Chew is Professor of Engineering at King's College London and Founder/Director of the Music Theranostics Lab. 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, perception & cognition) and since 2016 has integrated it with cardiovascular science, researching music representations of cardiac signals, music-heart mechanisms, and music-based cardiovascular diagnostics and therapeutics.
She is PI of ERC COSMOS and HEART.FM, and has received a Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year 2023 (Art & Science), PECASE (at the White House) and NSF CAREER awards, and fellowships at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Before joining KCL, she held faculty/researcher posts at CNRS-STMS (IRCAM, Paris), QMUL (London), USC (Los Angeles).