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with the unique feature of notifying users before exposure, whenever someone in their social network is affected, rather than after. NOVID tracks infections anonymously using location information gathered from inter-communicating cell phones, and was tested in pilot studies on college campuses.
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Mr. Loh has struck viral YouTube gold before. A 2016 YouTube math video, 'The Most Beautiful Equation in Math,' has more than 2.3 million views, with many of the more than 2,000 comments just appreciating how joyful Mr. Loh is in explaining
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math lesson and problem solving website with tens of thousands of users. Loh also founded Live, a math education site in which student teachers teach small courses surrounding middle and high school competition math concepts via
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to Singaporean immigrants Wei-Yin and Theresa Loh. As a middle school student, Loh twice represented Wisconsin in the national
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Loh's math coaching career started in 2002 when he first served as an assistant coach at the US national IMO training camp,
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Pavlak, Amy (April 2012). "Passing the Torch: Po-Shen Loh Trains Students to be Math Olympians".
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As mentioned by Chang & Corum, a similar method was previously independently developed in:
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Loh has been a professor at Carnegie Mellon University since 2010, where he teaches courses on
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In March 2020, Loh and other Hertz fellows were asked to assist in helping combat the
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team. He is the founder of educational websites Expii and Live, and lead developer of
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In 2019, Loh developed an alternative method and exposition for the solution of
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Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
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Loh, Po-Shen (2019). "A simple proof of the quadratic formula".
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Ben-Ari, Mordechai (2022). "7. Solving Quadratic Equations".
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Loh studied mathematics as an undergraduate student at the
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Loh, Po-Shen; Bershteyn, Anna; Yee, Shannon K. (2022).
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Loh is a prolific creator of expository math videos on
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Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College
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Chang, Kenneth; Corum, Jonathan (February 5, 2020).
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Results in Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics
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Results in extremal and probabilistic combinatorics
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Results in extremal and probabilistic combinatorics
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Princeton University. 969:Karuppur, Abhiram (September 19, 2018). 636: 634: 319:. Loh runs the training seminar for the 411: 1185:American people of Singaporean descent 715:. Mathematical Association of America. 1165:Alumni of the University of Cambridge 7: 1175:21st-century American mathematicians 664:. No. April/May 2014. p. 6 323:for Carnegie Mellon undergraduates. 306:Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program 552:International Mathematical Olympiad 247:International Mathematical Olympiad 219:International Mathematical Olympiad 1155:Carnegie Mellon University faculty 763:Levy, Max G. (February 16, 2021). 729:Strauss, Valerie (July 18, 2016). 331:Loh works at the intersections of 254:California Institute of Technology 243:James Madison Memorial High School 90:California Institute of Technology 25: 233:Loh was born on June 18, 1982 in 1116:Daily Challenge with Po-Shen Loh 1019:Engst, Adam (January 21, 2021). 840:Daily Challenge with Po-Shen Loh 682:Sostek, Anya (August 14, 2017). 516:Erickson, Doug (July 18, 2015). 372:Daily Challenge with Po-Shen Loh 283:, and, under the supervision of 1031:from the original on 2023-04-16 824:from the original on 2020-03-02 745:from the original on 2016-07-20 530:from the original on 2022-06-10 495:from the original on 2023-06-26 377:Loh is the founder of Expii, a 1: 479:Shamout, Omar (Spring 2022). 445:Sostek, Anya (May 13, 2019). 425:Mathematics Genealogy Project 42: 923:Sostek, Anya (May 7, 2018). 862:. 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Madison, Wisconsin
California Institute of Technology
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University of Cambridge
MASt
Princeton University
PhD
Discrete mathematics
Carnegie Mellon University
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Doctoral advisor
Benny Sudakov
mathematician
combinatorics
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International Mathematical Olympiad
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Madison, Wisconsin
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International Mathematical Olympiad
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Morgan Prize
Cambridge University
Churchill Scholarship
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