Elissa Ross
CEO & Cofounder at Metafold 3D
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolElissa Ross is a mathematician-turned-founder who blends a deep academic background (PhD in Mathematics) with nine years of industry experience building geometry-driven design tools as CEO and Cofounder of Metafold 3D. She develops applied mathematical software that helps manufacturers extract value from 3D data, optimize designs, and validate manufacturability in seconds, while also consulting on computational design and architectural geometry through MESH. Her career bridges research and practice—postdoctoral work and visiting positions at The Fields Institute and WPI inform the novel algorithms behind her products. Based in Toronto, she also advises Canada’s Quantum and Nanotechnologies Research Centre, reflecting a rare combination of creative fine-art training and rigorous discrete-geometry expertise. Notably, her work focuses on making complex geometric problems usable for artists, architects, engineers and manufacturers rather than keeping them purely theoretical.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Mathematics, Master of Science - MS Mathematics at The University of British ColumbiaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mathematics at York UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Fine Art, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Fine Art at University of Guelph
Github Skills (13)
2d7
urho3d7
engine7
cpp7
angelscript7
3d-graphics7
game-development6
3d6
opengl5
game-engine5
open-source5
cross-platform5
cli2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MeshGeometry/IogramSource
Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:33 commits, 1 push in 11 months
MeshGeometry/VoroPlugin
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:24 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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