Dr. Chew is the first honoree of the Viterbi Early Career Chair in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering (2005-2007), and served as Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering (2007), Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering (2001-2007), Visiting Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University (2000-2001), Lecturer in the School of Engineering (2000) and Affiliated Artist of Music and Theater Arts (1998-2000) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Her work has been suported by the National Science Foundation, most notably an NSF Early Career Award and Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE), an NSF Information Technology Research (ITR) grant, and NSF Engineering Research Center Collaborative Agreement grant through the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
She founded and heads the Music Computation and Cognition (MuCoaCo) Laboratory at USC, where she conducts and directs research on music and computing. Prof. Chew is on the founding editorial boards of the Journal of Mathematics and Music, Journal of Music and Meaning, and ACM Computers in Entertainment, and on the Editor's Panel of Computing in Musicology. She has organized several special issues and workshops on music and computing, and frequently serves on program and technical committees of music and computing conferences.
A proponent of contemporary and eclectic repertoire, she continues to perform widely as chamber musician and soloist. At USC, she has initiated and participated in the multimedia concerts The Mathematics in Music, Flying Sonics, and Dark Blue Sky Dream.
Prof. Chew is on sabbatical in 2007-2008, during which she and her collaborator/spouse Alexandre Francois are Fellows of Harvard's Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, and will be designing analysis and interactive tools for real-time processing and visualization of contemporary music.
