Shunting Chen is a lecturer at Shanghai International Studies University, specializing in semantics, corpus linguistics, and contrastive linguistics. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Shanghai International Studies University and was a visiting researcher at Harvard and the Laboratory of Formal Linguistics (Paris Diderot University and CNRS). She has published extensively on Chinese inter-clausal anaphora and conditional sentences, combining corpus-driven approaches with formal linguistic theories. She has received multiple research grants, including the Youth Fund for Humanity and Social Science Project by the Ministry of Education, and serves as a reviewer for Cognition and Sage Open.