Resume
Biographical Data
Place of birth: Huddersfield, UK
Residence: Tokyo, Japan
Date of birth: January 22nd, 1970
Nationality: British
Languages: Fluent in Japanese
Current Research Interests
My main research interests are in educational technology, corpus linguistics, and natural language processing. Continuing from my Masters work in genre analysis, I developed software to automatically analyze texts at the sentence and discourse level for my PhD. Since then, I have been developing educational software for use by researchers, teachers, and learners in corpus linguistics, including AntConc, a freeware concordancer, AntVocabCheck, a freeware vocabulary profiler, and more recently web-based monolingual and parallel concordancers.
I also like to participate in joint projects with other researchers in the fields of science and engineering. When participating in joint projects, I act in a number of roles, sometimes serving as a technical advisor and other times as a technical writer. To date, these projects have been related to organic chemistry, mechanical engineering, and applications of machine learning techniques in computer security systems, and web search systems.
I also work with several Japanese companies in the development of commercial software applications, and as a consultant on various aspects of technical writing and presentation.
Publications
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Education
| Degree | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. Applied Linguistics |
University of Birmingham, Birmingham (UK) Thesis title: "A Machine Learning System for the Automatic Identification of Text Structure and Application to Research Article Abstracts in Computer Science" |
2002 |
| MA (Distinction) TEFL/TESL |
University of Birmingham, Birmingham (UK)
Thesis title: "Text Structure of Research Article Introductions in the Field of Computer Science" |
1997 |
| B.Sc.(Honours 2.1) Mathematical Physics |
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), Manchester (UK). | 1991 |
Employment History
| Position | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Tenured Full-Professor | Center for English Language Education in Science and Engineering (CELESE), School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University (Japan) | Apr. 2009 - present |
| Tenured Associate Professor | Center for English Language Education in Science and Engineering (CELESE), School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University (Japan) | Apr. 2004 - Mar.2009 |
| Tenured Lecturer | Dept. of Information and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University of Science (Japan) | Apr. 1996 - Mar.2004 |
| Tenured Lecturer | Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University of Science (Japan) | Apr. 1993 - Mar.1996 |
| Head Teacher. | Keiyu English School (Japan) | Sep.1991 - Mar.1993 |
| Laboratory Assistant (Part-time) | Magna Colours (UK) | Jul. 1987 - Sep.1987 |
| Laboratory Assistant (Part-time) | Magna Colours (UK) | Jul. 1986 - Sep.1986 |
Main Responsibilities
| Position | Department | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Director | Center for English Language Education in Science and Engineering (CELESE) | Apr.2008 - present |
| Program Coordinator | Center for English Language Education in Science and Engineering (CELESE) | Apr.2005 - Mar.2007 |
| Coordinator of Graduate School English | Center for English Language Education in Science and Engineering (CELESE) | Apr.2007 - present |
| Coordinator of Technical Reading, Writing, and Presentation English | Center for English Language Education in Science and Engineering (CELESE) | Apr.2004 - present |
Societies
Member of the IEEE
Member of the IEEE Computer Society
Member of the IEEE Professional Communication Society
Member of the Japan Association for English Corpus Studies (JAECS)
Member of the Japan Association of College English Teachers (JACET)
Chair of IEEE Professional Communication Society-Japan Chapter (2008)
Vice Chair of IEEE Professional Communication Society-Japan Chapter (2007)
Referee Work
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communcation
IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B
Elsevier English for Specific Purposes
Elsevier English for Academic Purposes
Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
Awards
L'Oreal Art and Science of Color Gold Prize (October 2005)
Software
AntConc: A freeware corpus analysis tool
AntWordProfiler: A freeware lexical profile tool (aka. Paul Nation's Range Program)
AntMover: A freeware text structure analysis tool
Patents
Measurement and Tool for the Evaluation of Compositions (Patent Number: 4165898)
