Christina Chase

Christina Chase

Christina is a recognized leader in sports technology and innovation, serving as a Lecturer in MIT’s School of Engineering in the Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments, and as the co-founder and Managing Director of the MIT Sports Lab. She drives collaborations with elite sports teams, leagues, and global brands to solve complex challenges at the intersection of data, engineering, and innovation, including contributions to the 2002 Men’s and 2003 Women’s FIFA World Cups.

Christina’s work as a teacher, researcher, and practitioner focuses on the intersection of sports, data, engineering, and innovation. She started MIT’s first sports technology and innovation class and is a contributing author to 21st Century Sports: How Technologies Will Change Sports in the Digital Age (Springer 2021). Christina serves as an advisor to multiple sports technology start-ups having started her first company at 18 and was the first Entrepreneur-in-Residence at MIT’s Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship where she helped hundreds of teams go from concept to company.

Christina is a former Member of the External Evaluation Board for EIT Health, the European Union’s Institute of Innovation and Technology, and has served a Co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN). Christina is a Techstars mentor and has judged for the SXSW Accelerator Competition where she was a member of the Advisory Board. Christina is a former competitive cyclist where she was one of 12 selected by the US Cycling Federation to train at the US Olympic Training Center. She has taught downhill skiing in Colorado, summited six of Colorado’s 14-ers across seasons, and her latest sport is kiteboarding.

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    Co-founder and Managing Director, MIT Sports Lab
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