Elaine Chen Explained

Elaine Chen should not be confused with Elaine Chan.

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.

Biography

Chen earned bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[2]

Chen has served as VP of several companies, including Rethink Robotics, Zeo, Zeemote, and SensAble Technologies.^{[3] [4] [5]}

In 2005, Chen founded Conceptspring, a consulting business.^{[6] [7]}

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.

In 2017, Chen was selected by the AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassadors Program as one of the year's seven Invention Ambassadors.^[8]

Since 2020, Chen has served as the Cummings Family Professor of the Practice in Entrepreneurship and as the director of the Tufts Entrepreneurship Center.^{[9] [10]}

As of 2022, Chen was on the advisory board of Cybernetix Ventures.^[11]

Published works

Books

• Book: Chen . Elaine . Bringing a Hardware Product to Market: Navigating the Wild Ride from Concept to Mass Production . 21 February 2015 . 9781505380835.

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

External links

• Patents

Notes and References

1. Web site: Keya, Anna . Siegel, Hallie . 25 women in robotics you need to know about (2014) . Robohub . https://web.archive.org/web/20220210165003/https://robohub.org/25-women-in-robotics-you-need-to-know-about-2014/ . 10 February 2022 . 15 October 2014 . live.
2. News: Ferguson . Laura . Teaching an Entrepreneurial Mindset . 16 April 2023 . TuftsNow . 14 January 2020.
3. Book: Degroof . Jean-Jacques . From the Basement to the Dome . September 2021 . 9780262046152 . 79.
4. News: McGovern . Matthew . 23 September 2020 . Elaine Chen named new director of Entrepreneurship Center . 16 April 2023 . Tufts Daily.
5. News: Keay . Andra . Siegel . Hallie . 25 women in robotics you need to know about (2014) . 16 April 2023 . Robohub . 15 October 2014.
6. Web site: About - Conceptspring . 16 April 2023.
7. Web site: Elaine Chen MIT Sloan . https://web.archive.org/web/20200127084617/http://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/elaine-chen . 27 January 2020 . dead.
8. Web site: White . Neela . AAAS and The Lemelson Foundation announce the 2017-2018 Class of Invention Ambassadors . 16 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191126234757/http://www.inventionamb.org/trending-news/aaas-and-the-lemelson-foundation-announce-the-2017-2018-class-of-invention-ambassadors/ . 26 November 2019 . 1 June 2017.
9. News: Elaine Chen . 1 April 2022 . Tufts Gordon Institute.
10. News: School of Engineering welcomes new faculty . 1 April 2022 . Tufts University School of Engineering . 15 September 2020.
11. Steinmetz . Isaac . 2022-03-05. Robotics & AI Industry Leader Fady Saad and Automation & Sensor Industry Executive Mark Martin Launch First-of-its-Kind $50 Million Fund For Early-Stage Robotics, Automation, and AI Companies . businesswire . 2023-04-16.