Elaine Chen

Not to 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. ^[2]

Biography

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

Books

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

References

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. "Elaine Chen". Tufts Gordon Institute. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
4. 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. 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. "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.

External links

• Patents