Elaine Chew is a Professor of Engineering at King’s College London, with joint appointments in the Departments of Engineering and Cardiovascular Imaging. An operations researcher and pianist, she is a leader in music information research (MIR) and music perception, renowned for her work in modeling musical structures to explore music-heart-brain interactions and arrhythmia. As Principal Investigator of the European Research Council projects COSMOS and HEART.FM, she investigates music’s expressivity and its therapeutic potential for cardiovascular health.
Elaine Chew developed the “spiral array model” during her PhD at MIT, pioneering mathematical representations of tonality. She founded the Music Computation and Cognition Laboratory as an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California and later led the Music, Performance, and Expressivity Laboratory at Queen Mary University of London. As a senior researcher at CNRS in France, she contributed to the STMS Laboratory and IRCAM. A concert pianist, Elaine Chew integrates research with performance, using mathematical visualisations to enhance her musical interpretations.
