Fellowships, Grants and Awards

April 2024 - March 2025 特別研究費  (JPY1,000,000)  (Project Title: 内因的計算可変性ガイドライン (Endogenous Computational Variability Guideline)の理論的・実験的検証 ) (PI: Yosuke Sato; co-PI: Hajime Ono)

April 2019 – March 2025 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) Project #19K00560 (JPY4, 160, 000)  (Project Title: The Nature of Interface Conditions: Perspectives from Deletion Phenomena and Scope Interpretations)

September 2018 – March 2021  Sensei University Annual Faculty Research/Education Grant (JPN 225,000, JPN 450, 000, JPN 450,000) 

Oct. 2017 – Sept. 2020 The Ministry of Education (MOE) Academic Research Fund Tier 1 (SGD$30,000.00)  “Current Issues in Comparative Minimalist Syntax through Asian Perspectives”

2017-2020  International Collaborator on the Sogang University Research Foundation Global Research Network Project by National Research Foundation, South Korea NRF-2017S1A2A2039972 “Restructuring in the Noun Phrase” (PI: Dr. Michael Barrie, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea) 

Feb. 2016 – Jan. 2018 The Ministry of Education (MOE) Academic Research Fund Tier 1 (SGD18,220.00) “Hosting the 11th GLOW-IN-ASIA conference at NUS”

Feb. 2016 –June 2018 The Ministry of Education (MOE) Academic Research Fund Tier 1 (SGD 79,263.00) (as co-PI: PI, Dr. Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) “Theory and Variation in Extraction Marking and Subject Extraction Asymmetries”

Feb. 2015 – Jan.2018 The Ministry of Education (MOE) Academic Research Fund Tier 1 (SGD 34, 895.00) “The Design of Agreement East and West: Comparative Syntax of Argument Ellipsis in Asia”

April 2016 Office of the Deputy President (Research and Technology) Grant for Research Excellence. National University of Singapore (SGD 5000.00)

Spring 2016 Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Faculty Research Fellowship, Office of the Deputy President (Research and Technology), National University of Singapore (semester-long research leave from NUS duties to focus on research)

April 2015 Office of the Deputy President (Research and Technology) Grant for Research Excellence. National University of Singapore (SGD5000.00)

July 2011- Jan. 2015 Faculty Start-Up Funds, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore (SGD20,000.00)

October 2014 Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore (for teaching undertaken in Academic Year 2013/2014)

May 2014 Office of the Deputy President (Research and Technology) Grant for Research Excellence. National University of Singapore (SGD5000.00)

September 2013 Nomination for Young Researcher Award of the Office of the Deputy President (Research and Technology) by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore

October 2013 Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore (for teaching undertaken in Academic Year 2012/2013)

April 2013 Office of the Deputy President (Research and Technology) Grant for Research Excellence. National University of Singapore (SGD5000.00)

March 2013 Faculty Research Award – Award for Promising Researcher, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore (SGD5000.00)

January 2009 Travel Funding from UCLA and University of California, Berkeley (Travel support for the UCLA-UCB Conference on “Languages of Southeast Asia”) January 2008 Travel Grant from the Graduate & Professional Student Council (travel support for the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America)

June 2007 Professional Opportunities Development Grant from the Graduate & Professional Student Council (funding for the First Meeting of the Arizona Linguistics Circle) June 2007 Travel Grant from the Graduate & Professional Student Council (travel support for the 4th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics)

Spring 2007 College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

June 2006 Travel Grant from the Graduate & Professional Student Council (Travel support for the InterPhase Conference held in Nicosia, Cyprus)

Fall 2004 William J. Fulbright Scholarship (full grant for 2004-2005; renewed for 2005-2006 for partial funding)

March 2001 Certificate for English Teaching in Secondary Education (English teaching in high schools and junior high schools in Japan)

December 2000 The First Grade in the English Proficiency Test in Japan (highest grade)