Po-Shen Loh participant of International Mathematical Olympiad
Po-Shen Loh (born June 18, 1982) is an American professor of mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in combinatorics, and the national coach of the United States' International Math Olympiad team. He is the founder of educational websites Expii and Live, and lead developer of contact-tracing app NOVID.Early life and education
Loh was born on June 18, 1982 in Madison, Wisconsin to Singaporean immigrants Wei-Yin and Theresa Loh. As a middle school student, Loh twice represented Wisconsin in the Mathcounts competition. He attended James Madison Memorial High School, and in 1999 won a silver medal representing the US in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).Loh studied mathematics as an undergraduate student at the California Institute of Technology. In 2003, he won a Goldwater Scholarship. In 2004 he graduated with honors, ranked first in his graduating class, and his undergraduate thesis received an honorable mention for the 2004 Morgan Prize. Loh completed a one-year master's degree at Cambridge University on a Churchill Scholarship.Loh pursued graduate studies in mathematics at Princeton University with the support of a Hertz Fellowship, and, under the supervision of Benny Sudakov, received a Ph.D. in 2010 with his dissertation Results in extremal and probabilistic combinatorics.