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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]

Biography

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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]

Published works

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Books

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

Articles

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  • 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

References

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  1. ^ Keya, Anna; Siegel, Hallie (15 October 2014). "25 women in robotics you need to know about (2014)". Robohub. Archived from the original on 10 February 2022.
  2. ^ Force feedback joystick with digital signal processor controlled by host processor
  3. ^ a b "Elaine Chen". Tufts Gordon Institute. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  4. ^ a b c d Ferguson, Laura (14 January 2020). "Teaching an Entrepreneurial Mindset". TuftsNow. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  5. ^ Degroof, Jean-Jacques (September 2021). From the Basement to the Dome. p. 79. ISBN 9780262046152.
  6. ^ a b c d McGovern, Matthew (23 September 2020). "Elaine Chen named new director of Entrepreneurship Center". Tufts Daily. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  7. ^ Keay, Andra; Siegel, Hallie (15 October 2014). "25 women in robotics you need to know about (2014)". Robohub. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  8. ^ "About - Conceptspring". Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  9. ^ a b "Elaine Chen MIT Sloan". Archived from the original on 27 January 2020.
  10. ^ White (1 June 2017). "AAAS and The Lemelson Foundation announce the 2017-2018 Class of Invention Ambassadors". Archived from the original on 26 November 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  11. ^ "School of Engineering welcomes new faculty". Tufts University School of Engineering. 15 September 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  12. ^ 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" (Press release). businesswire. Retrieved 2023-04-16.
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