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01Education
Academy Records
Degrees, awards, activities and coursework
Sep 2023 – 2026High Honours
University of Saskatchewan
Honours, Mathematical Physics & Computer Science
Mathematical physics
Quantum mechanics
Applied mathematics
Computer science
Artificial intelligence
Scientific computing
Awards and scholarships 10
3× Honours Scholarship
Academic performance-based: given to outstanding students in the university based on their academic performance in the academic year.
3× Dean's List
Academic performance-based: given to the top 5% of students in the college based on their academic performance in the academic year.
2× Undergraduate Arts & Science Scholarship
Academic performance and need-based: given to top students with strong academic and leadership qualities.
2× International Students at Risk Award2024 & 2025
Academic performance and need-based: given to international students with good academic standing and in need of support to continue their studies.
Issued Sep 2024 & Dec 2025
2× Undergraduate Student Research AwardSpr/Sum 2024 & 2025
International Undergraduate Student Award2025
Academic performance and need-based: given to international students with strong academic standing and in need of support to continue their studies.
Issued Jan 2025
SIOS Students Scholarship2025
Given to international students with good academic standing who are in need of support to continue their studies.
Issued Jan 2025
Arts & Science Student Union Scholarship2024
Student involvement-based: given to one student in the university who showcases involvement in clubs and student-led organizations on campus.
Issued Apr 2024
quanTA Student Research AwardSpr/Sum 2024
Others: mostly travel awards and conference fundings
Activities 4
Rugby Player
University of Saskatchewan Rugby Team
MemberBrief involvement
University of Saskatchewan Rocketry Team
Worked on CubeSats (small satellites), circuit designs, and avionics design (onboard electronics).
Member
Arts & Science Student Union
Volunteer Tutor & Coach
Community & University Gym
Taught Quantum Mechanics, Data Structures, Vector Calculus, Calculus I & II, Physics I–III, and C programming.
Coached weightlifting and recovery technique at the university gym.
Selected coursework 8
Probability Theory
Advanced Quantum Mechanics
Partial Differential Equations
Introduction to AI
Introduction to Topology
Intro Nuclear & Particle Physics
Advanced Electromagnetism
Deep Learning & Applications
Conferences and summer schools 5
AACL-IJCNLP 2026
Hengqin, China, Nov 6–10, 2026 (upcoming)
Physics Undergraduate Students Conference 2024
UBC, Oct 2024
MMI Summit for Bio Mathematics
UBC, Sep 2024
Qiskit Global Summer School 2024
IBM, Jun 2024
PIMS Quantum Computing Summer School
USask, May 2024
Courses and certificates 2
Google Advanced Data Analytics Certificate (2025)
AI with Python for Beginners (2025)
Incoming · 2026
University of Waterloo
Master of Data Science & Artificial Intelligence
Data science
Artificial intelligence
Machine learning
02Projects
Project Hangar
Software built and shipped
Bay 01spotter-labs.com
Spotter
Got tired of fighting clunky forms to log my workouts, so I built an app that logs everything for me when I just talk to it.
Advanced Physics Research Lab, University of Saskatchewan
Built a Python quantum chemistry model to rank 25 chemical molecules by toxicity.
Improved the previous model’s ranking by 31%.
Built Python and C tools to move large research datasets from supercomputers to the cloud for analysis and processing.
Python
C
Data analysis
Cloud computing
Quantum chemistry
Scientific computing
May – Oct 2024Saskatoon, SK
Research Assistant
Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Saskatchewan
Developed algorithms in C, C++, and Python pipelines on supercomputers to simulate complex interacting-particle systems and capture their collision behavior in up to 100 dimensions.
Built models that identified critical behavior with 95 percent accuracy in higher dimensions, matching theoretical predictions.
Mathematical biology
Diffusion systems
HPC
Simulation
Algorithm design
Scientific computing
Python
Applied mathematics
Jun – Aug 2024Saskatoon, SK
Research Assistant
quanTA, University of Saskatchewan
Worked on foundational quantum information theory and near-term quantum computing applications.
Implemented Qiskit code for quantum algorithms and IBM Qiskit Summer School projects.
Explored quantum processing applications in materials discovery, health sciences, and energy.
Quantum computing
Qiskit
Quantum information
Python
IBM Qiskit
Scientific computing
04Publications
Research Archive
Papers and thesis: abstracts, PDFs, arXiv
2026Paper
Mitigating Over-Personalization in LLMs via Structured Memory
Role
First author
Status
Accepted to AACL-IJCNLP 2026 (Hengqin, China, November 2026) and to multiple ICML workshops
This paper studies safety failures in memory-augmented conversational LLMs, especially cross-domain leakage and memory-induced sycophancy. It proposes inference-time structured memory representations that partition memories by domain instead of injecting all stored user memories as a flat list. Across seven models on PersistBench, the strongest dynamic partitioning method reduces cross-domain leakage by 8.8 percent on average relative to the baseline while preserving useful personalization.
A schematic of the idea, not the paper’s results. Stored memories (dots) belong to different parts of a user’s life. Injected as one flat list, all of them reach a question about one domain, and those from other domains can leak into the answer (amber). Partitioned by domain, only the relevant group is brought in.
LLM Safety
Memory-Augmented LLMs
AI Alignment
Privacy
Structured Memory
PersistBench
Cross-Domain Leakage
Sycophancy
2026Thesis
Honours Thesis
Role
Author
Status
Undergraduate Honours Thesis
Document
PDF · 555 KB
Research on symmetry methods for solving non-linear partial differential equations — using the structure of a system's symmetries to construct exact and reduced solutions where direct integration fails.
Exact, not schematic. Burgers’ equation, ut + u ux = ν uxx, is one of the simplest nonlinear PDEs. Its viscous shock, u = −U tanh(Ux / 2ν), is an exact solution, and two of the equation’s Lie point symmetries carry it to other exact solutions: the scaling (x, t, u) → (λx, λ2t, u/λ) widens and lowers it, and the Galilean boost (x, u) → (x + ct, u + c) sets it moving. Symmetry methods of this kind are the subject of the thesis.
Mathematical Physics
Partial Differential Equations
Symmetry Methods
Applied Mathematics
Scientific Computing
2025Paper
Sustainable Tourism in Juneau, Alaska: A Stochastic Multi-Agent Model
2025 Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), Problem B, University of Saskatchewan
Document
PDF · 4.6 MB
A model of sustainable cruise tourism in Juneau, Alaska, written over four days for the 2025 Mathematical Contest in Modeling. Taking its cue from RollerCoaster Tycoon, it follows every tourist's happiness through the day as they choose among the glaciers, whale watching, the tram and the city. Crowding and a tourism tax raise or lower that happiness, and happier visitors bring more ships in the days that follow. Raising the tax from 5 percent to 22.5 percent keeps the city's carbon footprint stable, while 15 to 20 percent gives the lowest carbon footprint per dollar of tourism revenue.
A schematic of the model’s structure, not its results. Each dot is a visitor moving between the glaciers, whale watching, the tram and the city; colour is how happy they are, and it falls where a place is crowded.
Mathematical Modeling
Agent-Based Simulation
Stochastic Models
Sustainable Tourism
Carbon Footprint
MCM
05Résumé
Personnel Dossier
The record at a glance, and the résumé
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Hakeem Hannoon
Honours, Mathematical Physics & Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan
Incoming · 2026: Master of Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, University of Waterloo
Hi, I’m Hakeem, and I love Physics and AI. I want to be useful to other humans, understand
more about the universe, and help answer some of the big questions.
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