Colin Tang is a first year PhD student in the Mathematical Sciences Department of the Mellon College of Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is receiving the (2023–25) ARCS Pittsburgh Scholar Award Endowment in Memory of Jack and Gen Esgar, funded by Amy and Keith Arner. While in high school in Bellevue, Washington (across the lake from Seattle), Colin won first place in the 2019 International Math Olympiad and also led the US team to win first place, tying with China. During his undergraduate studies at MIT (from which he graduated with a degree in mathematics with a 4.8 GPA), he showed his continued math prominence by being a ranked winner in the Putnam Mathematical Competition. The Putnam Competition, which began in 1938 and includes schools from the United States and Canada, is the most prestigious undergraduate mathematics event of its kind. While showing his math talents, he filled his summers with internships that applied and expanded his skills. He interned in at Jane Street, using statistical tools to find signals in historical market data; at Amazon in Seattle, creating an animated test failure logger; and at Biotech, using sophisticated coding tools to identify drugs with more adverse effects than average.