Elaine Chen is an academic and an engineering executive in the

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field. She is named as the lead inventor on the

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patent for force feedback joystick.

Biography

Chen earned bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

. Chen has served as VP of several companies, including

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, Zeo, Zeemote, and SensAble Technologies. In 2005, Chen founded Conceptspring, a consulting business. From 2011 to 2020, Chen was a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Entrepreneur-In-Residence at the

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. In 2017, Chen was selected by the AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassadors Program as one of the year's seven Invention Ambassadors. Since 2020, Chen has served as the Cummings Family Professor of the Practice in Entrepreneurship, and as the director of the Tufts Entrepreneurship Center. As of 2022, Chen was on the advisory board of Cybernetix Ventures.

Published works

Books

Articles

* E. Chen and B. Marcus, "Force feedback for surgical simulation," in ''Proceedings of the IEEE'', vol. 86, no. 3, pp. 524-530, March 1998, doi: 10.1109/5.662877. * Cohen, A, & Chen, E. "Six Degree-of-Freedom Haptic System as a Desktop Virtual Prototyping Interface." ''Proceedings of the ASME 1999 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. Dynamic Systems and Control.'' Nashville, Tennessee, USA. November 14–19, 1999. pp. 401-402. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/IMECE1999-0053

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chen, Elaine American women engineers Living people Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Tufts University faculty