Early days
When she was a university student, Elena Chong made a couple of residencies at the Lewis Research Group of the Wyss Institute (Harvard). In the first two weeks, Chong joined Electroninks, a laboratory spin-off. At that time, she helped obtain the components for an educational product in Shenzhen, China. During the rest of her stay, she worked at Voxel8, a 3D printing startup that is the first to create a 3D electronic printer.
In her second internship, Chong worked at the HCI Group of the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, at Saarland University. At that time, she worked to create a proof of concept for a project called HotFlex, a new approach to placing parts of a 3D object.