CV
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Education
- Ph.D in Linguistics, University of Arizona, 2027 (expected)
- M.S. in Human Language Technology, University of Arizona, 2025
- M.A. in English Linguistics, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea, 2022
- B.A. in English, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea, 2020
Teaching Experience 📚
University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics
Standalone Instructor
LING439 - Statistical NLP, Spring 2026
- Designed and organized course materials and lectures
- Word representations, Naive Bayes, Logistic regression
LING438 - Computational Linguistics, Fall 2026
- Designed and organized course materials and lectures
- Regular Expression, Finite state automata, Regular grammar with Prolog
University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics
Graduate Teaching Associate
LING 150A – Language in the World, Spring 2025
- Graded assignments and discussion posts
- Provided constructive feedback and held weekly office hours
Instructor
LING 201 – Introduction to Linguistics, Summer 2024
- Designed and organized course materials and lectures
- Delivered weekly recordings and evaluated student performance
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, ELLT Department
Teaching Assistant
- Computational Linguistics with Python, Spring 2021
- Language Data Analysis with R, Fall 2021
- Assisted students with hands-on projects and coursework
Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies Camp, Dec 2018 - Feb 2019
- Taught English writing and speaking to 6th graders
- Designed curriculum and coached students for debate competitions
Work Experience 💼
XRI Global
Speech Technology Intern, Jan 2025 – Present
- Collected and processed multilingual speech data
- Fine-tuned ASR models for low-resource languages
- Explored techniques including data augmentation and transfer learning
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, ELLT Department
Head Assistant of the Department, Aug 2020 – Feb 2022
- Managed departmental responsibilities including graduation, internships, exchange programs, and course schedules
Research Experience 🔬
University of Arizona – Douglass Phonetics Lab
Graduate Research Assistant, Aug 2022 – Jan 2025
Supervisor: Dr. Natasha Warner
- Organized lab meetings and conducted speech perception experiments
- Analyzed acoustic and behavioral data using statistical methods
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea
Research Assistant, multiple projects between 2020–2021
- Phoneme feature extraction for English-learning systems
- Evaluation of non-native speech and error tagging
- Built corpora for writing and speech assessment systems
Hyundai Motor Company
Research Assistant, Feb 2021 – Nov 2021
- Refined parallel corpora for improving machine translation systems
National Information Society Agency (NIA), Korea
Research Assistant, Sep 2020 – Dec 2020
- Constructed discourse-level NLP datasets for AI model training
Skills 🖥️
Technical Skills:
- Languages: Bash, Praat, Python, Perl, R
- ASR/Machine Learning tools: Hugging Face🤗, Kaldi, Pytorch, WandB
- General: LaTeX, MacOS, Linux(Ubuntu), Windows
- Areas: Acoustic phonetics (speech production and perception), statistical analysis, natural language processing, audio signal processing
Languages:
- Korean (native)
- English (proficient)
- Chinese (basic)