About me

I am an assistant research fellow at the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica. I work on Austronesian historical linguistics with a focus on Formosan languages, and I also work in phonetics with a focus on the articulation of lateral consonants.

Previously, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, and my project focused on the extinct “Western Plains” languages once spoken on the west coast of Taiwan. I also worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Tsing Hua University Phonetics Lab, where I focused on the development of new methodologies in articulatory studies.

In February of 2025, I received my PhD in linguistics at the Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University. My dissertation focused on the phonetic reconstruction of Proto-Austronesian coronal consonants.

I was born in Fukuouka, Japan, but spent about half of my upbringing in upstate New York. I have lived in Taiwan for the past ten years.