ACADEMIC RESUME
| HERMAN H. LEUNG | |
EDUCATION | |
| 2014 | MA Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2012 | MA English (Linguistics), San Francisco State University |
| 2004 | BA Human Ecology (English and translation), College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor, ME) |
RESEARCH AND TRAINING | |
| 2016 - 2017 | Senior Research Assistant. Building parallel dependency treebanks in Cantonese and Mandarin for Prof. John S.Y. Lee. City University of Hong Kong |
| 2014 - 2016 | Project Director, Wiyot Language Database. Online dictionary and text corpus. Collaboration with Lynnika Butler at the Wiyot Tribe. University of California, Berkeley |
| July 2015 | CDIPS Data Science Workshop. Three-week team project in acronym recognition and classification using big data with cluster computing. CDIPS, University of California, Berkeley |
| Spring 2014 | Graduate Student Researcher. Database maintenance and linguistic analysis for the Yurok Language Project. Prof. Andrew Garrett. Linguistics Department, University of California, Berkeley |
| Summer 2010 | Fieldwork on Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec (Otomanguean) in Oaxaca, Mexico. Led by Prof. Troi Carleton. San Francisco State University |
TEACHING AND MENTORSHIP | |
| Spring 2015 | Graduate Student Instructor. C160 Quantitative Methods in Linguistics. Instructor: Prof. Susanne Gahl, UC Berkeley. |
| Fall 2014, Spring 2015 | Graduate Mentor. Linguistics Research Apprentice Practicum. Research project: Wiyot Language Database. Linguistics Department, University of California, Berkeley |
| Spring 2011 | TA. ENG 422: History of English. Prof. Troi Carleton. San Francisco State University |
| Fall 2011 | TA. ENG 420: Introduction to Linguistics. Prof. Rachelle Waksler. San Francisco State University |
| Spring 2004 | ESL Co-Instructor. College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor, ME) |
| Summer 2003 | English Instructor. English for Special Purposes Foundation (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) |
PROFESSIONAL | |
| 2011-2013 | Contract Phonetician. STAR Laboratory, SRI International (Menlo Park, CA) |
| 2008-2009 | Speech Recognition Analyst. Utopy, Inc. (acquired by Genesys, 2013) (San Francisco, CA) |
PUBLICATIONS | |
| [pdf] | John Lee, Keying Li, and Herman Leung, 2017.
L1-L2 Parallel Dependency Treebank as Learner Corpus. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Parsing Technologies, pp. 44-49. |
| [pdf] | Tak-Sum Wong, Kim Gerdes, John Lee and Herman Leung, 2017.
Quantitative Comparative Syntax on the Cantonese-Mandarin Parallel Dependency Treebank. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics, pp. 266−275. |
| [pdf] | John Lee, Herman Leung, and Keying Li, 2017.
Towards Universal Dependencies for Learner Chinese. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Universal Dependencies, pp. 67-71. |
| [pdf] | Herman Leung, Rafael Poiret, Tak Sum Wong, Xinying Chen,
Kim Gerdes, and John Lee, 2016.
Developing Universal Dependencies for Mandarin Chinese. In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Asian Language Resources, pp. 20−29. |
TECHNICAL SKILLS | |
| Python, R, Praat, corpus research methods, natural language processing, SQL, full stack web development, cartographic design (ArcGIS) |
LANGUAGES | |
| Native | English, Cantonese |
| Fluent | written Chinese |
| Advanced | Mandarin |
| Intermediate | Portuguese, Spanish, French |
| Linguistic analysis (research, elicitation, professional work) | Aymara, Cantonese, Classical Chinese, English, Iraqi Arabic, Japanese-accented English, Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec, Turkish, Xhosa, Yurok and Wiyot (Algic) |
SCHOLARSHIPS | |
| 2012-2014 | Chancellor's Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2009-2011 | Graduate Scholarship, San Francisco State University |
SERVICE | |
| 2013-2014 | Executive officer and conference co-organizer, Berkeley Linguistic Society (BLS40) |
| 2010-2011 | Co-president, Linguistics Graduate Student Asssociation (San Francisco State University) |