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    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

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