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Joshua Tan
Joshua Tan is a mathematician and computer scientist at the University of Oxford. He’s currently working on a governance layer for the Internet as part of the Metagovernance Project. Previously, he was a visiting fellow at Princeton and an entrepreneurial fellow in the MIT math department. He’s also an executive editor at Compositionality and a co-editor of the Applied Category Theory book series at Cambridge University Press. Josh is a graduate of Yale and NYU.
Read Q&A with Joshua:
What is your research focus?
Governance, math, AI.
How do you plan to change the world?
“There is another world, but it is in this one.” – Yeats
What is an interesting fact about yourself?
I originally studied art history.
What is music/film/art that represents who you are?
“Human”, by The Killers.