March Boedihardjo

Boedihardjo was born to an ethnic Chinese family in Hong Kong, with family roots in Anxi, China.^{[citation needed]} Boedihardjo moved to the United Kingdom in 2005, when his older brother Horatio began studying at the University of Oxford.^[3]

Boedihardjo finished his A-level exams in Britain at the age of nine years and three months, after attending Greene's College Oxford.^{[4][note 1]} He also gained 8 GCSEs.^[3] He was accepted at Hong Kong Baptist University, making him the youngest ever university student in Hong Kong. He commenced his university studies in September 2007.^[5] The university tailored a special 5-year curriculum programme for Boedihardjo which he criticized as being too easy and unstimulating on the first day.^[6][7] He obtained A−'s and B+'s in most of his mathematics courses in his first year, which got him on the Dean's List.^[8] He was conferred a Bachelor of Science in Mathematical Science and a Master of Philosophy in Mathematics after completing his programme one year early in 2011.^{[9][10][11][12]}

After graduating from Hong Kong Baptist University, Boedihardjo studied at Texas A&M University as a visiting scholar and then as a PhD student.^[12][13] In 2017, Boediharjo took up the position of assistant adjunct professor at UCLA on a three-year contract,^[14] a position he held until 2020.^[15] He was a visiting assistant professor at UC Irvine from 2021 to 2022 before starting a postdoc at ETH Zurich, a position he held until 2023. He is currently an assistant professor of mathematics at Michigan State University.

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