Elaine Chen
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Elaine Chen is an academic and an engineering executive in the haptic technology field.[1] She is named as the lead inventor on the Microsoft patent for the force feedback joystick.[2]
Chen earned bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3][4]
Chen has served as VP of several companies, including Rethink Robotics, Zeo, Zeemote, and SensAble Technologies.[4][5][6][7]
In 2005, Chen founded Conceptspring, a consulting business.[8][9][6]
From 2011 to 2020, Chen was a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and an entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship.[9][6][4]
In 2017, Chen was selected by the AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassadors Program as one of the year's seven Invention Ambassadors.[10]
Since 2020, Chen has served as the Cummings Family Professor of the Practice in Entrepreneurship and as the director of the Tufts Entrepreneurship Center.[3][11][6][4]
As of 2022, Chen was on the advisory board of Cybernetix Ventures.[12]