Brief
Prof. Loh is a social entrepreneur and inventor. He combines math, science, and technology with firsthand exploration of the human condition. Across the global landscape of work, AI, and education. Major newspapers have covered his diverse innovations. His latest unites math stars and actors to transform education.
He won silver for Team USA at the 1999 International Math Olympiad, and served a decade as National Coach. He is a Hertz Fellow — in a community of broadly innovative scientists with roots in the Manhattan Project and Space Race.
He personally speaks in an unprecedented 100+ cities per year on education-after-AI. Conferences. Substitute-teaching in K–12 classrooms. Visiting companies and labs. Public lectures. Learning while sharing ideas with students, parents, researchers, and policymakers. All while teaching at one of the world's foremost universities in AI (Carnegie Mellon) and running his own EdTech social enterprise.
Distinctions
Early life
Prof. Loh was born in the United States. He grew up on the outskirts of Madison, Wisconsin, 1 mile away from cornfields. He was always fascinated by the outside world and its people, inspired in part by the TV show Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (which, coincidentally, was co-produced by WQED which is now 1 mile away from where he lives today). His dream was to see the world, and to meet its people.
He attended public schools: Orchard Ridge and Glenn Stephens Elementary, Thomas Jefferson Middle, and James Madison Memorial High School (now Vel Phillips). He discovered his interest in unconventional, challenging math through the National MATHCOUNTS Competition, where he placed 3rd in the nation in 8th grade. Perhaps the most valuable part of that experience was meeting people who were so much better than him at everything he did.
He kept in touch, to learn from them. AOL Instant Messenger had just been released, and it became his channel to this growing network. He became fascinated with the power of networks, as through them he discovered all of the opportunities he later pursued. That supported his exploration of computer programming, debate, and organizing people. Driven primarily by the love of meeting up with these nationally-distributed friends, he somewhat accidentally made it onto the USA International Math Olympiad team.

