Loren Cobb is an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Colorado Denver. He is an applied mathematician who specializes in dynamic spatial models of general social processes, including epidemics, public health emergencies, refugee problems, population flows, economic collapse, ethnic cleansing, governmental dysfunction, and civil wars.

Loren has written numerous simulation models of societies in extreme distress; these models have been used for the past 18 years in international civil-military-police exercises in complex humanitarian emergencies, disaster relief operations, United Nations peacekeeping operations, and high-level national strategic planning.

In his academic work, Loren teaches stochastic asymptotics and mathematical statistics, and co-leads the computational math research seminar in data assimilation for very-high-dimensional systems. His current research concerns statistics on infinite-dimensional manifolds.