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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.

In 2023, Prof. Callison-Burch testified before congress about the relationship of generative AI and Copyright Law.

Recent Press

  1. VentureBeat."CoSyn: The open-source tool that’s making GPT-4V-level vision AI accessible to everyone" by Michael Nuñez. July 25, 2025
  2. Forbes."5 Truths Every Young Professional Needs To Know About AI" by Mark C. Perna. June 17, 2025
  3. CNN."More than 2 years after ChatGPT, newsrooms still struggle with AI's shortcomings" by Liam Reilly. May 28, 2025
  4. Quanta Magazine."When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History" by John Pavlus. April 30, 2025
  5. Penn Engineering Today."Meet Jean, Penn Engineering’s AI Tutor, Available 24/7" by Ian Scheffler. April 23, 2025

Recent Talks

  1. The Haverford Trust Company. Automation and its Implications on the Rising Workforce. July 13, 2025
  2. WorldQuant Bridgestone. Large Language Models and Generative AI. May 13, 2025
  3. Penn Conference on AI Infrastructure: Foundations for Energy Efficiency and Scalability. AI, Energy, and Sustainability. April 14, 2025
  4. AIRFoundry Annual Meeting. Harnessing Artificial Intelligence and Language Modeling for Enhancing Innovation and Evaluating Research Claims. March 31, 2025
  5. Cleaver Magazine Workshop. Demystifying AI: Threat or Tool?. March 30, 2025
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