Hi! I'M...
Jonathan Sakunkoo
I'm a student at the University of Oxford, UK, pursuing a master's/bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science. My primary interests are in mathematics, computer science, linguistics, computational social science, nlp, puzzles, LaTeX, creative writing, and software development. I love the joy of exploring, discovering beautiful proofs, and making progress on challenging problems, especially when I feel I’ve found a new way or made a breakthrough and when I finish thinking through a problem, writing my solution, and discussing ideas with others. I also enjoy philosophy, rowing, aerial acrobatics, badminton, and meditation.
Research
I'm currently doing research in computational morphology, sequence-to-sequence modeling, and biases of LLMs. I have worked on NLP and have given/will give talks on my research at leading conferences in NLP and HCI including ACL, ACM UIST, the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), NENLP @ Yale University, and the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. I've taken university-level classes such as complex analysis, linear algebra, multivariable calculus, introductory group theory, and data structures and algorithms, among others.
Childhood Projects
COMPETITION SOLUTIONS that I wrote
I've been fortunate to be recognized with national and international awards in math, computer science, and linguistics. I have written solutions and short proofs in LaTeX and Asymptote and shared with others. Below are some samples of solutions I've written for some competitions I've won awards in!
Where Is Jonathan?
- January 2025: Hawaii
- Late January 2025: NACLO Open Round (qualified for Invitational)
- February 2025: SoCal
- Mid-March 2025: NACLO Invitational Round (not participating due to schedule conflict and insufficient bandwidth)
- Early April 2025: England
- Early April 2025: NENLP 2025 @ Yale University (accepted)
- Mid April 2025: ACM CHI 2025, Japan (accepted)
- Late April-Early May 2025: NAACL 2025, Albuquerque (accepted)
- Late June 2025: ACM IDC 2025, Iceland (accepted, not going)
- Mid July 2025: SCiL 2025, Oregon (accepted, could not go)
- Late July 2025: IC2S2 2025, Sweden (accepted, gave a talk)
- Late July 2025: ACL 2025, Austria (accepted, presented)
- Late July 2025: IOL 2025 (not going... I'll miss you!)
- September 2025: ACM UIST 2025, Korea (accepted)
- October 2025: England!!
- 2026: Jane Street and AlpCHI 2026