Jonathan Sakunkoo

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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. I also enjoy philosophy, rowing, aerial acrobatics, badminton, and meditation.

Research

I have done research in computational morphology, sequence-to-sequence modeling, LLMs, and pure mathematics (discrete/ combinatorial geometry). 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.

Childhood Projects

I love writing proofs and mathematical expository papers and building useful applications. Here are some software, utility packages, and simple games that I've built since I was 10:

PickDraw: An Asymptote Drawing Tool for Advanced Lattice Point Geometry

Expository Paper on Pick's Theorem

Download PickDraw on Github

iSpeak Talking Calendar for Mac OS Computers and Laptops

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Top 100 Productivity Mac OS App in nearly 50 countries. Enable Google and Apple calendars to speak out loud in multiple languages.

Maori Active to Passive Verb Predictor

Predict

This fun computational morphology tool predicts the passive form of a Maori verb, given its active form.

Paper on the Maori Language

More recent

Google Scholar

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!

NACLO

2024

R2 (M) Maonan Animals

International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL)

Brasília 2024

P4 Dâw

Blagoevgrad 2015

P5 Somali Masafo Half-Line Poetry

SELECT AIME SOLUTIONS

2024 AIME I

Q15, Q11, Q7, Q5, Q4, Q2

Select AMC 10 and 12 SOLUTIONS