CV

Academic  Positions

• International Christian University (2015-present; tenured)

  • Professor (2025-)

  • Senior Associate Professor of Linguistics (2021-2024)

  • Associate Professor of Linguistics (2015-2020)

• Central Connecticut State University (2008-2015)

  • Associate Professor of Linguistics and TESOL (2014-2015,  tenured)

  • Assistant Professor of Linguistics and TESOL (2008-2014)

• Republic of Korea Air Force Academy (1999-2002)

  • Full-time Lecturer of German in the Foreign Language department

Other affiliations

• Honorary Associate Professor in the Centre for Linguistic Science & Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati India (2020.12-2024.12) 

• Adjunct Professor, Department of African Languages University of Venda, South Africa (2016-2028)

  • NRF Rated Professor C1 (2018-2023)

• Visiting Professor (Gast Dozent), Institute der Linguistik funded by the Guest Lecturer Programme International Campus , Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany (2022.7.1-7.31)

• Visiting Associate Professor, German Language Education , Seoul National University (2021.9.1 - 2022.8.31)

• Senior Research Associate, Department of African Languages University of Johannesburg, South Africa (2015-2018)

• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Post-doctoral Fellowships in the Humanities at Universities and Research Institutes in Germany funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation (2012-2013) 

• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (2009. 6-8)

Education 

• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Ph.D. in Linguistics (2002-2008) 

• Seoul National University M.A. in Linguistics (1997-1999)

• Seoul National University B.A. German Education (1993-1997)

Professional Services (current)

• Phonological Society of Japan [homepage]

  • 理事 (2023.4-2027.3,  4 years)

• Tokyo Circle of Phonologists (TCP) [homepage]

  • 運営委員 (2023.4 - )

• Educational Studies, IERS @ ICU [homepage]

  • Associate Editor (Area Chief) of Linguistics (2023.4-2026.3)

• World Congress of African Linguistics, WOCAL [homepage]

  • • Executive Member (2025.1-2033.12)

• Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL [Ethics Page] [ACL homepage]

  • • Member At-Large of the ACL Ethics Committee (2024.12 – 2027.11) 

• IJCNLP-AACL 2025 [homepage]

  • • Senior Area Chair (SAC) in Ethics, Bias, and Fairness for the ARR July 2025 cycle

• The Phonology-Morphology Circle of Korea [homepage]

  • • Member of the Editorial Board (2024.9.1. – 2026.8.31)

[List of Completed Professional Services]