Annabella Sakunkoo

Hey! I'm Annabella Sakunkoo, a researcher and student at Stanford OHS. I also take college coursework at Stanford, UCLA, and colleges such as Foothill and Santa Ana in computer science, statistics, linguistics, microeconomics, and fine arts, with a 4.00/4.00 GPA.

In 2026, I was selected as one of a selected few fellows in the Oxford AI Safety Core Fellowship at Oxford University — the youngest and only non-Oxford student admitted. In 2024 and 2025, I was selected for the MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute in Biotechnology and Cognitive Assistants (AI/NLP).

My research encompasses 2 main areas. I investigate fairness, bias, and safety in large language models. I'm also a builder. I design and create creative, educational, and joyful human/AI interaction systems for learning and wellbeing . My innovatived work has won a Tech Achievement Award from Stanford School of Medicine.

My research has been accepted for poster and demo presentations, talks, and panel discussion at ACM UIST in Korea, CHI in Japan and Spain, ALP CHI at ETH Zürich, ACL in Austria and California, and NAACL, where I also received an award. I'm a Yale Entrepreneurial Society Fellow and a Davidson Ambassador (one of only 20 students selected nationally).

Outside of research, I'm a pianist who has performed at Carnegie Hall (Zankel and Weill), Oxford University, Harvard University, Beethoven Haus in Germany, and the Opéra Bastille in Paris. I've taught low-income, marginalized students, tutored on Schoolhouse.world (where I was rated #18 most "Super Helpful" tutor), run the Stanford OHS World Languages and Philosophies Society, worked as a student leader of the Stanford iWiSH program at the Stanford Medical School , and spent some lovely time filming Disney commercials and Amazon Prime's Show.