Research Interests
Working at the phonetics–phonology interface: how articulation shapes phonological representation, how speech is planned, and how it comes to carry social, affective, and clinical meaning.
- Articulatory basis of phonological representation
- Experimental phonetics of speech production & planning
- Sound symbolism, iconicity & affective phonology
- Register & sociophonetics — Korean Aegyo, hypocoristics
- Speech, clinical phonetics & language AI
Experience
Associate Professor
Sungkyunkwan University · Dept. of English Language & Literature
Assistant Professor
Sungkyunkwan University · Dept. of English Language & Literature
Courses taught
- English Linguistics 101
- English Phonetics
- English Phonetics Project
- English Words and Morphological Structures
- Data Science for Language Analysis
- [Grad] Research Methods in English Phonetics
- [Grad] English Phonology
- [Grad · Education] English Phonology & Pronunciation Teaching Methods
- [Grad · Language & AI] English Phonetics & Speech Technology
Assistant Professor
Busan University of Foreign Studies · Division of English
Courses taught
- Understanding English Pronunciation: Phonetics
- English Pronunciation Practice: Phonology
- English Vocabulary Practice: Morphology
- Web-Based English: corpus linguistics
- English & Big Data: R & Python
- English, Society & Culture: sociolinguistics
- English for Academic Fields
- Understanding Anglo-American Society & Listening
- Media Listening Practice
- Business Document Writing in English
- [Grad] English Phonology
- [Grad] English Morphology
- [Grad] Applied linguistics: research methodology
- [Grad] Corpus Statistics
Postdoctoral Fellow
Seoul National University · Dept. of Linguistics (Advisor: Jongho Jun)
Teaching Assistant
University of Southern California · Human Language & Technology
Phonetics & speech recognition (Matlab), with Profs. Louis Goldstein, Khalil Iskarous & Mary Byram Washburn.
Education
Ph.D. in Linguistics
University of Southern California
Dissertation: “Articulatory Knowledge in Phonological Computation.” Advisor: Rachel Walker. Articulatory phonetics, 3D tongue simulation (ArtiSynth), neural-net phonetics–phonology mapping, Harmonic Grammar.
M.A. in Linguistics
University of Southern California
Thesis: “Constraint schema of the OCP: interactions between similarity and proximity.” Swedish high-tone dissimilation, Optimality Theory.
Ph.D. Student in Linguistics
Seoul National University · Computational linguistics (sentiment analysis)
M.A. in Linguistics
Seoul National University
Thesis: “Sentiment analysis of Korean: a linguistic feature-based approach.” Advisor: Hyopil Shin.
B.A. in Linguistics (minor: Journalism)
Seoul National University · Summa Cum Laude
Grants & Funding
Principal Investigator Ongoing
National Research Foundation of Korea · Joint Research Program
Development of a Linguistics-Based Multimodal AI System for Automated Assessment of Speech and Analysis of Its Association with Clinical Indicators in Neurodegenerative Disorders.
Principal Investigator
National Research Foundation of Korea · Early-Career Research Program
An Experimental Linguistic Study on the Korean Speakers’ Phonological Preparation Unit.
Co-Investigator
National Research Foundation of Korea · Joint Research Program
A Big Data-Based Approach to Understanding Korean Elderly Speakers’ Language: Presenting Strategies for Artificial Intelligence Modeling.
Selected Publications
A selection below. See the full CV for the complete list.