I'm Bolor Gantugs (Krystal), a student from Ulaanbaatar with a Buryat heritage and an enduring curiosity about how people make meaning: through words, rituals, science, and art.
From founding Mongolia's Brain Bee to studying Latin ritual language, developing translation tools, and designing a symbolic tarot deck, I follow questions across the boundaries of disciplines.
Bolor Gantugs (Krystal) · Independent research & creative projects
My interest in Latin began when I was eight: first through biological taxonomy, then through the mythological worlds behind so many classical names. That curiosity grew into a language association, computational research, and a broader fascination with the places where culture meets cognition.
As someone of Buryat descent, language preservation also feels personal. I'm interested in what happens when knowledge that once traveled by voice or custom finds a new home in technology.
Discover the Latin association ↗Leadership, fieldwork, research, technology, and creative practice. These are the ten activities central to my current academic portfolio.
Founded Mongolia’s national Brain Bee with MNUMS and IBRO Mongolia collaborators; authored a 120-page learning syllabus and reached 455 students, with 30 national finalists. Recognized by International Brain Bee leadership as National Coordinator for Mongolia.
Visit Brain Bee ↗Established a Latin-learning association in Mongolia in 2023, bringing classical texts, translation resources, and historical conversations to Mongolian learners. My interest began at eight through the names of living things and mythological stories.
Visit Latin Association ↗Built a digital platform for Buryat–Mongolian language learning, an evolving vocabulary dictionary, and children’s bilingual stories. Preserving Buryat is personal to me as a student of Buryat descent.
Explore Үндэс ↗Completed a 180-hour paid internship contributing to a cultural-resource screening protocol and a predictive mapping approach informed by local herders’ oral histories.
Supported archival and public-history activities, coordinated lectures involving visiting University of Pennsylvania scholars at the American Center for Mongolian Studies, and contributed to youth museum tours.
Co-authored research on Mongolian sentiment analysis using 2,700+ labeled texts and three machine-learning classifiers (reported 0.90 weighted F1). Also authored computational humanities studies on Latin ritual language and meaning.
View OSF profile ↗Designed an interactive atlas connecting belief, cultural practices, cognition, and textual analysis; developed complementary cognitive experiments and interactive simulations.
Open atlas ↗Created a multilingual guide to Mongolian ger etiquette and customs, used by 166 travelers; collaborated with Juulchin Travel to make cultural knowledge more accessible.
Explore guide ↗After six years of tarot reading, designed a 78-card chamomile-themed tarot deck as a reflective exploration of symbolism, religious history, and cognition.
See the deck ↗Co-chaired UN General Assembly sessions for a school Model United Nations involving 233 delegates; helped organize committee discussions and accessible student learning events.
Preprints, journal work, and institutional evidence. Links point to the relevant public project or source; acceptance is distinguished from final publication.
Accepted for the Fall 2026 issue of Ephebeia, a youth classics journal, according to editorial confirmation.
Open Science Framework research profile, including preprint work.
Co-authored study comparing three classifiers on a manually labeled dataset of over 2,700 examples.
The competition website details the inaugural national event and its affiliation with International Brain Bee.
Explore the implementation and development history of publicly shared projects.
An editorial shelf inspired by the simple, categorized reading-library approach at Tod Enkhbat's Feeding the Mind. These are suggested books relevant to my interests; reading status can be updated individually.
This is an evolving thematic shelf, not a claim that every title has been finished. Book designs are original typographic representations rather than publisher cover artwork.
For collaboration, language technology, classics, anthropology, or neuroscience projects: