Dr HAN, Kunmei
Lecturer; Doctor of Philosophy
Research Interest: Corpus linguistics, interpreting, Language and aging, World Englishes
Email: hankm@szu.edu.cn
Personal profile
Dr. Han Kunmei got her Ph.D in Linguistics from the National University of Singapore; B.A. in Literature from the Chinese University of Hong Kong; member of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). Since September 2024, she has been teaching in the Department of English, School of Foreign Languages, Shenzhen University, offering courses such as Interpreting, Translation, Comprehensive English, Introduction to Translation (MTI), and Business Communication.
Dr. Han’s research interests include corpus linguistics and aging-related language studies. She received the Best Abstract Award at the 2025 LSA Annual Meeting. Her research has been published in leading journals such as Alzheimer’s & Dementia and World Englishes, and she has presented at prestigious international conferences including the 2024 AAAI Spring Symposium and the Max-Planck Institute Conference on Psycholinguistics.
Education
2020.8-2024.7 National University of Singapore, Doctor of Philosophy
2016.9-2020.6 The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Bachelor of Arts (First Honor)
Publications
·2025 Huang, N., Lin, L., Han, K., Cao, L., Hing, J. Ooi, V., Bao, Z. Treebanks and World Englishes: a Singapore English perspective. English World-wide.
·2024 Han, K. Modelling Lexical Characteristics of the Healthy Aging Population: A Corpus-Based Study. Proceedings of Interspeech 2024. Kos, Greece.
·2024 Han, K. Modeling lexical characteristics of the healthy aging population with a natural speech dataset. Proceedings of AAAI 2024 Spring Symposium on Clinical Foundation Models. Stanford, California.
·2024 Cao, L., Han, K., Lin, L., Hing, J. Ooi, V., Huang, N., Feng, L., Mahendran, R., Kua, E.H., & Bao, Z. Reversal of the Concreteness Effect can be Detected in the Natural Speech of Older Adults with Amnestic, but not Non-amnestic, Mild Cognitive Impairment. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring. 16(2), e12588.
·2023 Bao, Z., Shen, R., & Han, K. Languages and language contact in China. Journal of pidgin and creole languages. 38(1).
·2023 Lin, L., Han, K., Hing, J. W., Cao, L., Ooi, V., Huang, N., & Bao, Z. Tagging Singapore English. World Englishes, 42(4), 624–641.
Teaching:
Interpreting (I)(II), Comprehensive English, Principles of Translation (MTI program), business communication
