Dr. Po-Shen Loh

Po-Shen Loh is a social entrepreneur and inventor, working across the spectrum of mathematics, education, and healthcare, all around the world. He is a math professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and the national coach of the USA International Mathematical Olympiad team. He has pioneered innovations ranging from a scalable way to learn challenging math live online at comparable engagement to live-streaming entertainment, to a new way to control pandemics by leveraging self-interest.

• Founder of NOVID, first anonymous contact tracing app against COVID-19 in the USA (2020-present)

• Carnegie Mellon University, Professor of Mathematics (2010-present)

• National Coach of USA International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) team (2014-present)

• Education

• Princeton University, Ph.D., Mathematics, 2010

• Cambridge University, Master of Advanced Study in Mathematics with Distinction, 2005

• California Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Science with Honor, Mathematics, 2004