Ekaterina Shutova is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Her research is in the area of natural language processing with a specific focus on computational semantics and figurative language processing using statistical learning. Previously, she worked at the International Computer Science Institute and the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley and the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. Ekaterina received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Cambridge in 2011 and her doctoral dissertation concerned computational modeling of figurative language.