Chris Callison-Burch is a Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His course on Artificial Intelligence has one of the highest enrollments at the university with over 500 students taking the class each Fall.
He is best known for his research into natural language processing. His current research is focused on applications of large language models to long-standing challenges in artificial intelligence. His PhD students joke that now whenever they ask him anything his first response is “Have you tried GPT for that?”
Prof Callison-Burch has more than 150 publications, which have been cited over 25,000 times. He is a Sloan Research Fellow, and he has received faculty research awards from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and Roblox, in addition to funding from DARPA, IARPA, and the NSF.
On May 17, 2023, Prof Callison-Burch testified before congress about the relationship of generative AI and Copyright Law.
Recent Talks
- Informatics in the Round podcast. Chatbots in Healthcare: The Ultimate Turing Test. August 28, 2024
- Penn Engineering Podcast. Exploring AI in Engineering. April 24, 2024
- AIs Wide Open Podcast. The relationship between AI and copyright. February 21, 2024
- Penn Association of Senior and Emeritus Faculty (PASEF). Ask an Expert About ChatGPT and Generative AI. November 8, 2023
- Hopkins Business of Health Initiative (HBHI). Driving Innovation with Generative AI. September 15, 2023
- The Society Of Composers and Lyricists. Ask an Expert about ChatGPT and Generative AI. August 14, 2023
Recent Press
- Axios."Teachers still can't trust AI text checkers" by Megan Morrone. September 3, 2024
- Penn Engineering Today."Detecting Machine-Generated Text: An Arms Race With the Advancements of Large Language Models" by Melissa Pappas. August 12, 2024
- Tech Briefs."Recreating ‘Star Trek’ Virtual Environments: Holodeck generates a virtually limitless range of indoor environments, using AI to interpret users’ requests." by Andrew Corselli. June 11, 2024
- ABC 6 Action News WPVI-TV Philadelphia."Artificial Intelligence 101: Understanding the power of AI and its dangers" by Cheryl Mettendorf and Chad Pradelli. June 4, 2024
- Philadelphia Inquirer."New Penn AI master’s program aims to prep students for ‘jobs that we can’t yet imagine’" by Ariana Perez-Castells. May 2, 2024
- Technical.ly."Penn Engineering rolls out an online master’s degree in AI, first in Ivy League" by Sarah Huffman. April 30, 2024
Email: ccb@upenn.edu