Early Career Chair: Elaine Chew
Holder of the Viterbi Early Career
Chair, Elaine Chew is an assistant professor in the Epstein Department
of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and a research area director in
the university’s Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC).
Early
career chairs were created to award, recognize and support research in
areas that could lead to significant advances, and they are awarded to
junior faculty who show exceptional distinction and promise. For a
donor, they provide a way to help elevate a promising researcher, while
supporting an area of great potential.
“The
Viterbi Early Career Chair award has allowed me to create a lecture
series,” says Chew, “bringing to USC top researchers in music cognition
and computing, and putting the university on the map as a destination
for computational music cognition research.”
Chew,
a well-known concert pianist, has been recognized for her innovative
work at the intersection of computational mathematics and musical
perception and cognition. Her research, which is highly integrative,
combines aspects of the performing arts with computer science,
modeling, human cognition and development of the Internet.
