In 1996, he moved to the United States in order to attend the University of California, Berkeley,[3] where he received an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
[4][2] Loo is the RCA professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Pennsylvania[4] in the departments of Computer and Information Science and Electrical and Systems Engineering.
[7] He has published over 150 papers[8] and two books - Declarative Networking (Synthesis Lectures on Data Management) in 2012[9] and Datalog and Recursive Query Processing (Foundations and Trends(r) in Databases) in 2013.
[10] In 2019, Loo received the University of Pennsylvania Emerging Inventor of the Year award, given annually to one Penn faculty member for success in technology transfer.
[13] The company raised seed funding in addition to a SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) grant from the National Science Foundation.