I am an Associate Professor at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam and a Visiting Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. At the ILLC, I lead the Amsterdam Natural Language Understanding Lab and the NLP & Digital Humanities research unit. I am also an ELLIS Scholar.

Previously, I was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and a Research Scientist at the International Computer Science Institute and the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of California, Berkeley. I received my PhD from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and Pembroke College.  

Research

My research is in the area of natural language processing, with a specific focus on machine learning from linguistic and multimodal data. Current  interests and projects include:

• few-shot learning for NLP

• multilingual NLP 

• joint modelling of language and vision

• cognitive processing and semantic representation in the brain

• modelling implied meanings and figurative language

• computational social science and societal applications of NLP

My research has been supported by personal grants from the ERC, Innovate UK, the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust (UK), as well as industrial funding from Google, Meta and Deloitte. It has also been covered in media outlets such as the Wired magazine, the New Scientist and the Economist.

News

• I recently joined the Computer Science Department at Stanford University as a Visiting Associate Professor.

• I am a program co-chair of ACL 2025.

• I have been awarded an ERC Consolidator grant for my project "Towards globally accessible language technology and its alignment to cultural contexts".

• Our paper Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models was selected as a Finalist for Outstanding Certification by TMLR.

• Recent papers from my group have been accepted at CVPR 2024, NAACL 2024 and ACL 2024.

• Our paper received an Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2023. The paper investigates claims of superhuman performance in today’s NLP.

• Our project "AI clinics against hate speech" has been awarded an AI Democratization grant by the UvA RPA Human(e) AI (with Giovanni Sileno).

Contact

Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)

Faculty of Science

University of Amsterdam

Science Park 900

1098 XH Amsterdam

Office: L6.49

Phone: +31 (0) 20 525 8334

Email: e.shutova @ uva.nl