Career highlights

• Reader/Associate Professor, ANU, since 2013. 
• Senior tutor/Lecturer/Senior lecturer, ANU, 1991-2012.
• Visiting Researcher, Gakushuin University (Dec 1999 - June 2000) on Japan Foundation Fellowship.
• Visiting Researcher, Yokohama National University (Sep 2009 - Jan 2010) on Heiwa Nakajima Foundation Research Fellowship.
  

Current positions

• Convenor of Japanese program
• Executive board member, ANU Japan Institute
• Convenor of Japanese linguistics major
  

Services for academic community

• Section editor, Open Linguistics (De Gruyter, since 2014)
• Editorial board member, Journal of Japanese Language (Seoul, since 2007)
• Editorial board member, e-Journal of Asian Linguistics & Language Teaching (2001-2008)
• Co-convenor, ANU Language Teaching Forum (since 2014)
• Executive board member of the Korean Association of Japanese Linguistics (2005-present).
• Convenor, Communication, Education and Language Stream, Biennial Conference of Japanese Studies Association of Australia (2013).
• Convenor, Communication, Language and Linguistics Stream, Biennial Conference of Japanese Studies Association of Australia (2007).
• Convenor, Japanese Program, Asia-Pacific Week, ANU (2005, 2006, 2007).
• ACT Japanese Accreditation Panel member (1999-2007).
• Founder and Councilor of ACT Korean community school (2001-present)
• Chair of the judge panel for ACT Korean speech contest (2006, 2011)

Teaching awards

• College Award for Excellence in Teaching Language College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU (2008)
• College Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU (2012)
• ANU Commendation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (2009 and 2013)

• Japanese-Korean linguistics
• Spoken discourse
• Unique features of Japanese spoken conversation
• Japanese education