Hana Filip received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley.  She has taught at Stanford University, Northwestern University, University of Rochester, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and most recently at the University of Florida.  Among other appointments, she has also held an appointment as a professor at the 2007 Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America at Stanford University.  

Her main area of specialization is semantics and its ties to pragmatics, logic, syntax and the philosophy of language; her work also reaches to computational linguistics, in particular computational lexical semantics, psycholinguistics and is generally informed by the insights drawn from a variety of fields of cognitive science. 

Much of her research is motivated by her long-standing interest in conceptual foundations of semantics, drawing on the logical/formal and cognitive research traditions.  Her current research is focused on aspect, genericity, indefinites, scalar semantics and the grammar of measurement.  The overarching goal is a better understanding of the nature of cross-linguistic variation and semantic typology.  Languages analyzed in some detail in her work come from Germanic, Slavic and Romance families.