Work

• 2018-present: Birmingham Fellow at the University of Birmingham.
• 2018-present: Visiting Scientist at the Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, RIKEN.
• 2017-2018: Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of Tübingen. I worked at LEAD Graduate School & Research Network.
• 2015-2017: Research Associate at the University of Cambridge. I worked at the EF Education First Research Lab for Applied Language Learning.
• 2016-2017: Associate Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University.
• 2013-2015: Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. I worked for the ESRC-funded project ‘Investigating interdisciplinary research discourse: the case of Global Environmental Change’.

Education

PhD in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
2010-2014
University of Cambridge (UK)
PhD Thesis: “Individual variation and the role of L1 in the L2 development of English grammatical morphemes: Insights from learner corpora”
Supervised by Dora Alexopoulou

MA in Linguistics (TESOL/TEFL)
2007-2009
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan)
MA Thesis: “A corpus-based analysis of English textbooks in Japan and Asian countries: Multidimensional approach”
A paper based on the thesis is available here.
Supervised by Yukio Tono

BA in Foreign Studies (Linguistics Minor)
2003-2007
Sophia University (Japan)
BA Thesis: “Purposes of English education in Japan, their relationships and the implications on future education"
Supervised by Shinichi Izumi

Prospect High School, Illinois, USA
1999-2002

Local public primary school and junior high school in Osaka-sayama, Osaka, Japan
1990-1999

Awards, Scholarships, and Other Qualifications

• The Albert Valdman award for outstanding publication in Studies in Second Language Acquisition for the paper “L1 influence on the acquisition order of English grammatical morphemes: A learner corpus study”.
• A scholarship by the Japan Student Services Organization that covers the tuition fee and living expenses for my PhD study for three years (January 2010 – November 2012)
• Hughes Hall Travel Grant (£250.00; July 2011, October 2011, and September 2012)
• The representative graduate at the graduation ceremony of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies for achieving high academic performance among those who obtained masters’ degrees in 2009
• One of the two debaters in the Japanese national debate team of Japan-US Exchange Debate in 2008, organized by the National Communication Association (US) and Japan Debate Association [our report (in Japanese)]

Reviewing Experience

• Manuscripts for journals and books
  • Corpora
  • International Journal of Applied Linguistics
  • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
  • International Journal of Learner Corpus Research
  • Language Learning
  • Studies in Second Language Acquisition
  • A chapter in Ortega, L., Tyler, A., & Uno, M. (2016). The usage-based study of language learning and multilingualism. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press
• Conferences
  • AAAL 2018
  • AACL 2018
  • BAAL 2016, 2017
  • EUROSLA 2014, 2016-2018
  • Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Code-Switching
  • TaLC 2018

Skills

• Native speaker of Japanese
• Advanced user of English
• R
• Perl
• Basic competence in Python
• Basic competence in C++