Allyson Ettinger is a computational linguist and an Assistant Professor in Linguistics at the University of Chicago. Her research combines methods and insights from cognitive science, linguistics, neuroscience and computer science to improve both the understanding of language processing in humans and the engineering of natural language processing in artificial intelligence systems. Ettinger completed her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Maryland, and spent one year as research faculty at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago before joining the faculty at the University of Chicago.