He is a former child prodigy of ethnic Hokkien descent with ancestry from Anxi, Quanzhou, 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.
[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.
[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.