My name is Loo Yu Jun, and I am a Ph.D. candidate in Mathematics 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.