Yoon Mi OH
Associate Professor
Department of French Language and Literature
Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea
Email: yoonmioh@ajou.ac.kr
Tel: +82 (0)31-219-3308
Education
◇ 2012-2015
PhD in Language Science, DDL Laboratory, Lyon 2, with highest honors.
⁃ Thesis title: Linguistic complexity and information: quantitative approaches.
⁃ Director: François Pellegrino, Defense date: October 20, 2015.
◇ 2009-2011
International Master (Erasmus Mundus) in Natural Language Processing & Human Language Technology,
University of Franche-Comté and Autonomous University of Barcelona, with high honors.
⁃ Dissertation title: Traitement des collocations verbales dans un système de Q/R : les verbes supports et les verbes à particule.
◇ 2004-2008
Bachelor in French Language and Literature, Yonsei University.
⁃ Obtainment of the diploma with highest honors (1% of the graduates).
⁃ GPA: 4.16/4.30.
Grants and Distinctions
◇ 2025-2026
Collegium fellowship, Collegium de Lyon - Institute for Advanced Studies, France.
◇ 2021 Teaching award (Section: Newly appointed professors), Ajou University, South Korea.
◇ 2020 Research award (Section: Impact Factor) for the article “Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon”, Ajou University, South Korea.
◇ 2019 Research award (Section: Impact Factor) for the article “Different languages, similar encoding efficiency: Comparable information rates across the human communicative niche”, Ajou University, South Korea.
◇ 2015 Visiting fellowship in Language Science (SFB 1102) for the research project “Information density and the predictability of phonetic structure”, Saarland University, Germany.
◇ 2012-2015 PhD scholarship, LabEx ASLAN (Advanced Studies on LANguage complexity), France.
◇ 2009-2011 Erasmus Mundus Scholarship financed by the European Union (EMMC 2008-0083).
◇ 2008-2009 Grant of Korea Research Foundation (KRF).
◇ 2008 Summa Cum Laude, BA in French Language and Literature, Yonsei University.
Research Experience
◇ 2025-2026
Fellow, Collegium de Lyon - Institute for Advanced Studies, Lyon, France, September 1, 2025 - January 30, 2026.
◇ 2023-Present Associate professor, Department of French Language and Literature, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea.
◇ 2019-2023 Assistant professor, Department of French Language and Literature, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea.
◇ 2017-2019 Postdoctoral fellow, New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour (NZILBB), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
◇ 2015 Visiting researcher, Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Saarland University, Germany, January 12 - April 12, 2015.
◇ 2010 Internship in Inbenta (Semantic search engine company) as a linguist (Creating disambiguation and recognition rules for English verbal collocations for their semantic search engine), Barcelona, Spain, January - March 2010.
Administration Activity
◇ 2023-2025
Department head, Department of French Language and Literature, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea.
◇ 2021 Treasurer, Société Coréenne d’Enseignement de Langue et Littérature Françaises, South Korea.
Professional Activity
◇ 2013-Present
Reviewer for Interspeech 2017, LabPhon 17, 18, 19 and the journals
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, English World-Wide,
Glossa: a Journal of General Linguistics, Laboratory Phonology, Language and Cognition,
Linguistics Vanguard, Études de Langues et Littérature Françaises,
La Revue de l'Étude de la Culture Française,
and
Société Coréenne d'Enseignement de Langue et Littérature Françaises.
Organizing Activity
◇ 2024
Organizer of French culture day for Francophone high school students, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea.
◇ 2021-2023 Organizer of an annual national French contest for Francophone high school students, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea.
◇ 2017-2019 Organizer of a bi-weekly seminar series, NZILBB, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Active Participation in Research Projects
◇ 2023-2024
⁃ Project title: Trade-offs between information and speech rate in natural speech.
⁃ Coordinator: Yoon Mi Oh.
⁃ Funding: Ajou University.
◇ 2019-2022
⁃ Project title: Assessing the effect of sociolinguistic and cognitive factors on balancing linguistic complexity.
⁃ Coordinator: Yoon Mi Oh.
⁃ Funding: Ajou University.
◇ 2017-2019
⁃ Project title: Statistical learning with and without a lexicon.
⁃ Coordinator: Jen Hay.
⁃ Funding: Royal Society of NZ Marsden Fund.
◇ 2015-2016
⁃ Project title: Information density and the predictability of phonetic structure.
⁃ Coordinator: Bernd Möbius.
⁃ Funding: DFG (German Research Foundation), SFB 1102.
◇ 2012-2015
⁃ Project title: Linguistic complexity and information: quantitative approaches.
⁃ Coordinator: François Pellegrino.
⁃ Funding: LabEx ASLAN (Advanced Studies on LANguage complexity).
Additional training
◇ 2013
Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS 2013) “Collective Behaviour and Mobility in Complex Systems”, Le Havre, France, July 9-18.
◇ 2012 International Summer School in Language and Speech Technologies (SSLST 2012), Tarragona, Spain, July 30 - August 3.
Teaching Experience
◇ 2023-2024
Junior Course French 1 (3h/week, S1), Understanding Francophonie through Data Analysis (3h/week, S1),
Junior Course French 2 (3h/week, S2), Spanish (3h/week, S2), Ajou University.
◇ 2022 Junior Course French 1 (3h/week, S1), Understanding Francophonie through Data Analysis (3h/week, S1), Materials and Methods in FLE (3h/week, S1), Junior Course French 2 (3h/week, S2), Spanish (3h/week, S2), Ajou University.
◇ 2021 Junior Course French 1 (3h/week, S1), Intermediate French 1 (3h/week, S1), Introduction to Francophonie (3h/week, S1), Junior Course French 2 (3h/week, S2), Intermediate French 2 (3h/week, S2), Ajou University.
◇ 2020 Intermediate French 1 (3h/week, S1), Sign and Thought (3h/week, S1), French (3h/week, S1), Intermediate French 2 (3h/week, S2), Spanish (3h/week, S2), Ajou University.
◇ 2019 Intermediate French 1 (3h/week, S1), Reading in French (3h/week, S1 & S2), Intermediate French 2 (3h/week, S2), Ajou University.
Supervision
◇ 2017-2021
Co-supervisor of a PhD student (Moonsun Choi), Department of Linguistics, University of Canterbury.