Jungyeul Park received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Université Paris Diderot (Paris VII) in 2006. His interest in natural language processing motivated him to pursue Linguistics after initially studying Computer Science. His current research interests include machine learning approaches for morphology and syntax of natural language.
He was a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at IUT de Lannion (Université de Rennes 1) during 2013-2014 and a Research Scientist at CEA Nano-INNOV during 2015-2016. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at University of Arizona during 2016-2017 and in the Department of Linguistics at SUNY Buffalo during 2018-2019. He is an acting/affiliate assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at University of Washinton (Seattle) since Fall 2019. He is also a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at The University of British Columbia (Vancouver) since January 2021.
Research grant, Academy of Korean Studies, 2020. Co-PI with Jayoung Song at Penn State University (USD 22,000): Exploring the effects of using VR and AR on developing learners’ intercultural communicative competence. Feb 1, 2020 - Jul 31, 2021.
1st Place Prize, Minister of Education Award, 2012 Korean NLP Competition with YoungGyun Hahm, Kyungtae Lim, Key-Sun Choi. KAIST NLP-Hub. October 12, 2012. Korea Maritime University, Busan.
Best Paper Award, Korea Computer Congress 2012 Spring with Dong-Hyun Choi, Kyungtae Lim, YoungGyun Hahm, Key-Sun Choi. Methods of Transforming the Sejong Treebank to Improve Parser Performance. June 27-29, 2012. Jeju.
Best Oral Presentation Award, Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE) 2012 Annual Fall Meeting with Kyungtae Lim, YoungGyun Hahm, Yoon Yongun, Key-Sun Choi. Accessing Korean DBpedia resources for the Intelligent Web. November 23-24, 2012. Daejun.
Daesan Translation Award, Daesan Fondation with Loïc Dugast. French translation of Le sac (by Jung Bock-keun). August 2011.