PERSONAL
- Mikhail Kopotev, PhD, Adj. Prof.
- born 27 September, 1973
- Mother tongue: Russian
- Other tongues: English, Finnish, German
- Hobbies: mountaineering, travelling, reading
EDUCATION AND DEGREES AWARDED
- 2015: Fulbright Senior Scholar, Department of Linguistics, Harvard University
- 2011: Adjunct Professor (Russian language), University of Helsinki,
Finland
- 2009: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Helsinki,
Finland
- 2004-2009: Doctoral program in Russian linguistics, University of Helsinki, Finland
- 1999: Licentiate (Kandidat filologicheskih nauk), Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
- 1995-1998: Postgraduate program in Russian and General linguistics,
Petrozavodsk State University, Russia
- 1990-1995: Graduate program in Russian language and literature (MA), Petrozavodsk State University, Russia
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
- Director of MA program, the Higher School of Economics, Russia (2019 to present)
- University Lecturer, Department of Modern Languages, Helsinki University (2012 to present)
- University Lecturer, Davis Russian school, Middlebury college, USA (2017)
- Principal Investigator, Department of Modern Languages, Helsinki University (2013 to present)
- University Lecturer, Department of Modern Languages, Helsinki University (2012 to present)
- Researcher, Department of Slavonic and Baltic Languages and Literatures, Helsinki University (2001-2012)
- Senior lecturer, Department of Russian Language, Petrozavodsk State University, Russia (1995-2000)
ONGOING RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
- Corpus of Academic texts:CAT&kittens
- Algorithms of plagiarism Detection:Plageval
- Automatic collocation and colligation extraction:CoCoCo project
- Revita: Learning from stories:REVITA
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- University courses on history of the Russian language, Russian grammar,
corpus linguistics, general linguistics, computer linguistics
- Invited guest lectures in different universities (Harvard, Peking University, Iowa State University, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Saint-Petersburg State University, etc.)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Corpus linguitics, cognitive linguistics, historical linguistics, teaching methodology, heritage language, plagiarism detection
INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
A member of program and steering committees
- Aplied and experimental linguistics Program's steering committee, Saint-Petersburg State University (2017-)
- EDUFI (CIMO) Finnish-Russian Winter school (2016-)
- Biennial International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing (2012-)
- Corpus lingvistics Conference (Saint-Petersburg, 2006-)
A member of the editorial and/or advisory boards
- Slovo: Journal of Slavic Languages and Literatures (Uppsala, 2014-)
- Structural and Applied Linguistics (Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2015-)
- Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin (Novosibirsk, 2014-)
PUBLICATIONS
- See a separatelist.