CV

EDUCATION

University of Utah, UT, USA  (2021 - present)
Ph.D. in Linguistics 

Indiana State University, IN, USA (2018 - 2020)
M.A. in Applied Linguistics & TESL

SunMoon University, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea of Republic (2012 - 2017)
Bachelor’s degree in English and Business Administration

RESEARCH

Speech Acquisition Lab (2021 - present)

University of Utah, Department of Linguistics

• Presented and discussed research papers published in the lab with lab members.

• Provided support and guidance to new members for onboarding and in-lab data collection training.

• Maintained and organized the lab space for day-to-day operations.

Second Language Research Group (2020 spring)

ISU, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

• Organization of professors and graduate students to discuss topics in second language acquisition and related topics and to conduct research collaboratively.

• Participated in an ongoing meta-research project of understanding culture as a construct by investigating the definition and measurement of culture in applied linguistics research.

Graduate Research Assistantship (2018 winter, 2019 summer)

ISU, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

• Collect data related to funding resources from published research journals.

• Organized a data set regarding geographic information according to given coding schemes, and corrected errors in the data tables.

TEACHING

Instructor

LING 1069 Bad Words & Taboo Terms (2023 summer)

LING 1200 Introduction to the Study of Language (2022 summer)

KOR 101 Elementary Korean (2019 - 2020)

Teaching Assistant

LING 1069 Bad Words & Taboo Terms (2024 spring)

LING 3600 Cross-cultural Communication (2023 fall)

LING 1069 Bad Words & Taboo Terms (2022 - 2023)

LING 1200 Introduction to the Study of Language (2021 - 2022)

PRESENTATIONS

Poster

English listeners’ perception of Korean stop consonants at the 14th Annual Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference (Sep 2023)

English listeners’ perception of Korean stop consonants at the University of Utah Student Conference in Linguistics (April 2023)

SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS

Outstanding Graduate Assistant, ISU Department of Languages, Literature, and Linguistics (2020)

Superior Grade Scholarship, SunMoon University t Conference in Linguistics (2014)

Excellent Grades National Scholarship, SunMoon University (2012, 2013)

SERVICES

Coordinator of the Speech Acquisition Lab, Department of Linguistics, University of Utah (2021 - present)
Poster evaluator at Undergraduate Research Symposium (URS), University of Utah (2023 - present)

Secretary at Linguistics Graduate Student Association (LINGSA), Department of Linguistics, University of Utah (2021 - 2022)

Organizer of Korean Conversation Table (Mo-im), ISU, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (2019 - 2020)

Korean mentor for Korean language courses, ISU, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (2019)