Elaine Chen
Elaine Chen is an academic and an engineering executive in the haptic technology field. She is named as the lead inventor on the Microsoft patent for force feedback joystick. Biography 

Chen earned bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chen has served as VP of several companies, including Rethink Robotics, 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 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. 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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 Patents

American women engineers
Living people
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Tufts University faculty