Tony DeRose

Tony DeRose is the co-founder and CTO of X in a Box, a company dedicated to bringing project-based learning opportunities, such as Story Xperiential, to users around the world. Prior to this role, Tony spent 23 years at Pixar as a Senior Scientist, where he also led Pixar’s Research Group. His contributions include supporting the Science Behind Pixar museum exhibit, co-founding the Maker Education Initiative (makered.org), and creating Pixar in a Box and Imagineering in a Box, both available on Khan Academy. Tony has received two Scientific and Technical Academy Awards® for his work on the mathematics of surfaces and has been honored with the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award. He holds a BS in Physics from UC Davis and a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.