Ekaterina Shutova

Ekaterina Shutova is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) within the Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam. She concurrently holds a Visiting Associate Professor position in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. She leads the Amsterdam Natural Language Understanding Lab and heads the NLP & Digital Humanities research unit at ILLC. An ELLIS Scholar, she earned her PhD from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and Pembroke College. Her research has been funded by ERC, Innovate UK, British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, Google, Meta, and Deloitte.

Her research spans natural language processing and machine learning, with core interests in:

• Few-shot learning for NLP
• Multilingual and cross-lingual systems
• Joint modeling of language and vision
• Cognitive processing and semantic representation
• Figurative language interpretation
• Computational social science applications

Her recent publications (2024-2025) predominantly focus on multimodal learning, cultural alignment in AI, metaphor processing, and evaluation methodologies for language models. These works reflect a trend toward integrating cognitive science with multilingual systems and ethical considerations.

Awards & Fellowships:

• ERC Consolidator Grant (2025)
• ELLIS Scholar
• Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2023
• Finalist for Outstanding Certification by TMLR
• Runner-up Best Paper Award at NAACL-HLT 2016

Research Leadership: She directs the Amsterdam Natural Language Understanding Lab, supervising 8 PhD students, 1 MSc student, and 34 alumni. Her projects include an ERC-funded initiative on globally accessible language technology and an AI Democratization grant for hate speech detection.