CV

A full CV in PDF format is available on request.

Education

• PhD in Linguistics (Department of Linguistics, Rice University, December 2011)

• MA in Linguistics (Department of Linguistics, Rice University, December 2010)

• MLitt in Linguistics (Department of Linguistics, The University of Tokyo, March 2006)

• BA in Linguistics (Department of Linguistics, The University of Tokyo, March 2004)

Employment

• Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, The University of Tokyo (April 2019–)

• Associate Professor, Institute of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (April 2018–March 2019)

• Lecturer, Institute of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (April 2013–March 2018)

Invited Academic Positions:

• Research assistant for the NSF project Austronesian Voice Systems: An Eastern Indonesian Perspective (NSF award No. BCS-0617198; PI: Professor Masayoshi Shibatani, August 2006–July 2009)

• Visiting scholar, Department of Linguistics, University of the Philippines, Diliman (Supervisor: Professor Ricardo Ma. Duran Nolasco; August 2005–October 2005)

Postdoctoral Fellowships

• JSPS Research Fellow (SPD), National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (Supervisor: Professor Prashant Pardeshi; April 2012–March 2013)

• Project Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (Supervisor: Professor Tasaku Tsunoda; September 2011–March 2012)

• JSPS Research Fellow (DC1), Department of Linguistics, The University of Tokyo (Supervisor: Professor Yoshiki Nishimura; April 2006–August 2006)

Senior Fellowships

• HMC Fellow, LIXIL Ushioda East Asian Humanities Initiative (2021–2022)

• Br Andrew Gonzalez FSC Distinguished Professorial Chair in Linguistics and Language Education, Linguistic Society of the Philippines (2021)

Honors

• 20th Japan Academy Medal, Japan Academy (March 2024)

• 20th JSPS Prize, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (March 2024)

• Honorary membership, Linguistic Society of the Philippines (March 2021)

• Best Paper Award, Linguistic Society of Japan (November 2020)

• 10th NINJAL Director’s Award, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics  (May 2015; with Timothy Vance, Mikio Giriko, and Akiko Takemura)

• Best Presentation Award, Linguistic Society of Japan (June 2013)

Editorial Work

• Editorial Consultant: Philippine Journal of Linguistics, Linguistic Society of the Philippines (2020–)

• Editorial Board: Gengo Kenkyū, Linguistic Society of Japan (2021–)

• Editorial Board: Endangered and Lesser-Studied Languages and Dialects, Brill (2022–)

• Editorial Board: Tokyo University Linguistics Papers (2019–)

• Editorial Board: Southeast Asian Studies Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2016–2019)

Ad Hoc Reviews (Journals)

• Concentric: Studies in Linguistics

• Diliman Review

• Gengo Kenkyū 『言語研究』

• Journal for Japanese Studies 『日本語・日本学研究』

• Journal of Cognitive Linguistics 『認知言語学研究』

• Journal of Pragmatics

• Journal of the Institute of Language Research 『語学研究所論集』

• Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society

• Kyoto University Linguistic Research 『京都大学言語研究』

• Language and Linguistics

• Languages

• Linguistic Discovery

• Linguistics Vanguard

• NUSA

• Oceanic Linguistics

• Philippine Journal of Linguistics

• Southeast Asian Studies Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 『東京外大東南アジア学』

• Studies in Pragmatics 『語用論研究』

• Tokyo University Linguistics Papers 『東京大学言語学論集』

Ad Hoc Reviews (Conferences)

• Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT)

• Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

• International Cognitive Linguistics Conferences (ICLC)

• International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (ICAL)

• International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar (RRG)

• Linguistic Society of Japan (LSJ)

• Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC)

• Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS)

Conferences and workshop organized

• The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (June 2016; AFLA23; at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies; local organizing committee)

• Role and Reference Grammar 2017 (August 2017; at the University of Tokyo, Komaba; local organizing committee)

• Summer Institute 2018, Linguistic Society of Japan (August 2018; at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies; local organizing committee)

• The 36th Annual Meeting of Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC36) (October 2022; program committee)

• The 29th Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 29) (May 2019; at the KFC Halls and Rooms in Ryogoku; local organizing committee)

Professional Services

• Councilor for the Linguistic Society of Japan  (2015–)

• Executive committee of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (2019–)

• Executive committee of the Tokyo Linguistics Institute (2020–)

• External Assessor for the Department of Linguistics at the University of the Philippines, Diliman (2022)

• Reviewer for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

• Reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF)

• Reviewer for the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP)

• Reviewer for tenure promotions in Japan

Professional Organizations

• Association for Linguistic Typology

• Linguistic Society of Japan

• Linguistic Society of the Philippines

• Societas Linguistica Europaea