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
Recent Press
- Quanta Magazine."When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History" by John Pavlus. April 30, 2025
- Nature News."‘WithdrarXiv’ database of 14,000 retracted preprints launches" by Dalmeet Singh Chawla. January 6, 2025
- PBS NewsHour."What you need to know about AI, misinformation and the election" by Casey Kuhn. November 1, 2024
- Penn Engineering."Training Medical AI with Knowledge, Not Shortcuts" by Ian Scheffler. October 15, 2024
- EdScoop."AI detectors are easily fooled, researchers find" by Colin Wood. September 9, 2024
- Axios."Teachers still can't trust AI text checkers" by Megan Morrone. September 3, 2024
Email: ccb@upenn.eduOffice hours (Spring 2025): Wednesdays 3:30-4:30pm in AGH 431