Elaine Chew is an operations researcher and pianist focused on the study of musical structures as they apply to musical performance, composition and cognition, and in the analysis of electrocardiographic traces of arrhythmia. She is currently a senior researcher at the Science et Technologies de la Musique et du Son (STMS) Laboratory, where she is affiliated with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), which together with the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), Sorbonne University, and the French Ministry of Culture constitute the joint research laboratory.