My name is Loo Yu Jun (吕宇君). I was born in Kuala Lumpor and spent my childhood in Singapore before moving to the USA. I'm working on finishing up my Ph.D. in Mathematics and Scientific computing at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. My advisor is Silas Alben. If you like fluids and continuum mechanics (or snakes), check out his website! I spend my time here in Michigan using math to both understand and control things moving in fluids (In practice this means I spend a lot of time messing around on my computer). You can see some of my research here. Other than that, I also do a lot of hiking, birdwatching, and wrestling.

I attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for my undergraduate degree in Pure Mathematics and specialized rather deeply in Several Complex Variables and Partial Differential Equations. I spent my days kicking snow around, drawing silly math pictures, and working with Alexander Tumanov, researching some open problems in Complex Analysis. In 2022, I won the H. Roy Brahana Prize, awarded to the student with the most exceptional undergraduate mathematics career. I think of my time there very fondly.

Before that, I was a Search and Rescue Dog Handler for the Singapore Civil Defense Force.

I met some of my closest friends there. If you happen to live in Singapore and also happen to have a dog, check them out!

In a past life even before that, I had a fun time painting.