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.
[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.