About Us — Onling

About the Olympiad

The Online Olympiad in Linguistics was conceived as an annual competition that would allow secondary school students from all over the world to get closer to understanding the scientific beauty of language. It can also serve as practice before the (offline) International Linguistics Olympiad, which takes place every summer and brings together students from many countries. Unlike the IOL, however, the Online Olympiad is well suited for problems that involve real-time interaction and feature multimedia materials.

Each linguistics problem concerns a different language. Nevertheless, participation in the Olympiad does not require the student to have any prior knowledge of linguistics or languages. All the data necessary to solve the problem is contained in it, and it is up to the participant to obtain the solution by correctly putting the necessary pieces of information together.

The core of our team currently consists of several problem committee members of the Ukrainian Linguistics Olympiads and a few international volunteers. We have been organizing online contests for Ukrainian students since 2015, and we are excited to share this kind of experience with other nations.

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Team

Editors Past Editors Maintainers

Tamila Krashtan

Ukraine

Onling co-founder, co-chair of the Ukrainian LO,
and APLO jury member

Vlad A. Neacșu

Hong Kong / Romania

APLO jury chair (2022, 2023), organizer of HKLO
and the Romanian LO

Emmy Bonser

USA

a casual polyglot with a tendency to get distracted by rocks
IOL Honorable Mention (2022), IESO Excellent (2021)

Pradish Gandhi S

India

an enthusiast of physics, astronomy, and linguistics
top 10 in IJSO Stage 1 in India (2021), placed 3rd in Physics Brawl (2022)

Seiko Ishii

Japan

an avid fan of language learning and a debater on hiatus
IOL Gold (2022), APLO Gold (2022) & Bronze (2020)

Daria Kryvosheieva

Ukraine

a lover of linguistics, NLP, and languages
IOL Silver (2022), Gold (2021) & Bronze (2019), APLO Gold (2022), placed 2nd in Internationale Deutscholympiade (2020)

Eppu Leinonen

Finland

a fanatic of all things language and physics
IOL Honorable Mention (2022), IPhO Honorable Mention (2021), EuPhO Bronze (2022), NBPhO Gold (2022) & Bronze (2021)