Elaine Chew is Professor of Engineering joint between the Department of Engineering (Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences) and the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences (Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine) at King's College London. An operations researcher (BAS Stanford; SM MIT; PhD MIT) and pianist (LTCL; FTCL) by training, Elaine is a leading authority in music information research (MIR) and music perception and cognition – she is centre of one of 9 publication clusters having ≥5 women in the international MIR community (ISMIR 2016 infometric study) – 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 the mathematical and computational modelling of musical structures in music and in electrocardiographic traces, with application to music-heart-brain interaction and computational arrhythmia research.