CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

2008-present: Ph.D., Department of Linguistics, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

2004: The 2nd Taiwan Summer Institute of Linguistics—Corpora and Computational Linguistics. Held July 12-23 at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

2003-2006: M. A., Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

1999-2003: B. A., Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

GRANTS/HONORS

2009-2011: Studying Abroad Scholarship (Ministry of Education, Taiwan)

2008-2013: Linguistics Fellowship (Department of Linguistics, Rice University, USA)

2008: Excellent Work, Kunpeng Award (Archilife Research Foundation, Taiwan)

2005: Scholarship of Graduate Students of Linguistics (Language Training and Testing Center, Taiwan)

2004: Knowledge Keeper Grant (Archilife Research Foundation, Taiwan)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

2007-2008: Research assistant for Dr. Hengsyung Jeng (National Taiwan Univeristy)

Project title: Multimedia Dictionary of Isbukun Bunun

2005-2006: Research assistant for Dr. Hengsyung Jeng (National Taiwan Univeristy)

Project title: Semantic and Pragmatic Perspective on the Contrastive Analysis of English Content Word Collocations and its Chinese Counterparts

2005-2006: Research assistant for Dr. Shuanfan Huang (National Taiwan Univeristy)

Project title: Discourse and Cognition in Kavalan

2004-2005: Research assistant for Dr. Shuanfan Huang (National Taiwan Univeristy)

Project title: Language, Space, and Emotion

TEACHING EXPERIENCES

2009 Fall: Teaching assistant for Dr. Robert Englebretson (Rice University)

Course title: LING 300 "Linguistic Analysis"
Guest lecture: Typology & Universals  [ppt]  [exercise]

2009 Fall: Teaching assistant for Dr. Lilly Lee Chen (Rice University)

Course title: CHIN 101 "Introductory Chinese I"

2008 Spring: Teaching assistant for Linda Lanz (Rice University)

Course title: LING 200 "Introduction to the Scientific Study of Language"
Guest lecture: Fieldwork on Bunun [ppt]

FIELDWORK EXPERIENCES

2008: Recording on Bunun (ISO bnn; Austronesian), in Guanshan Township, Taitung County, Taiwan, for the government-funded project "Building a Multimedia Dictionary of Isbukun Bunun"

2007: Recording on Bunun (ISO bnn; Austronesian), in Namasia Township, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan, for the government-funded project "Building a Multimedia Dictionary of Isbukun Bunun"

2005-2006: Fieldwork on Kavalan (ISO ckv; Austronesian) in Sinshe Village, Fengbin Township, Hualian County, Taiwan, for the master thesis project "Spatial Conceptualizations in Kavalan"

2004: Fieldwork on Kavalan (ISO ckv; Austronesian) in Sinshe Village, Fengbin Township, Hualian County, Taiwan, for the Field Method paper "Morphological causatives in Kavalan"

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2010-present: Webmaster of Rice Linguistic Society (RLS)

2009-present: Web Assistant of International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA)

2009-2010: Social Coordinator of Rice Linguistic Society (RLS)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

2009-present: Member, International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA)

2009-present: Member, Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA)

2009-present: Member, Linguistic Society of America (LSA)

2008-present: Member, Rice Linguistics Society (RLS)

2004-present: Knowledge Keeper (French), Archilife Research Foundation (ARF)

2003-present: Member, Linguistic Society of Taiwan (LST)

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Native: Mandarin, Taiwanese Minnan

Advanced: English

Intermediate: French, Hakka, Cantonese, Latin

Novice: Esperanto, Kavalan, Bunun (with a certificate of Proficiency Tests of Aboriginal Languages on Isbukun Bunun licensed by Council of Indigenous Peoples, Executive Yuan, Taiwan)

Working knowledge: Russian, German, Spanish, Sanskrit, Malayalam, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean