Academic Positions
International Christian University (2015-present; tenured)
Senior Associate Professor of Linguistics (2021-)
Associate Professor of Linguistics (2015-2020)
Central Connecticut State University (2008-2015)
tenured Associate Professor of Linguistics and TESOL (2014-2015)
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)