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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.

Prof Callison-Burch has more than 200 publications, which have been cited over 30,000 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. WHYY."Can teachers spot AI writing? Penn researchers weigh in" by Liz Tung. November 28, 2025
  2. The Pulse (WHYY)."How Chatbots Make Us Feel" by Maiken Scott (host), Liz Tung (reporter). November 14, 2025
  3. WHYY."How not to be mistaken for a chatbot" by Liz Tung. November 18, 2025
  4. The Christian Science Monitor."AI goes to college: How new tech is driving majors and jobs" by Laurent Belsie, Ira Porter, Hannah Goeke, Goodluck Ajeh. September 10, 2025
  5. VentureBeat."CoSyn: The open-source tool that’s making GPT-4V-level vision AI accessible to everyone" by Michael Nuñez. July 25, 2025

Recent Talks

  1. JHU AITC Conference on Large Language Models and Large Foundational Models. A Brief History, But Long Impact of LLMs. November 20, 2025
  2. Perry World House conference on The Future of Artificial Intelligence Governance and International Politics. Panel on AI, Chips, and U.S.-China Competition. October 7, 2025
  3. USLI. What is AI, and will it take your job?. September 9, 2025
  4. The Haverford Trust Company. Automation and its Implications on the Rising Workforce. July 13, 2025
  5. Wharton Executive Education session for LIMRA and LOMA. Generative AI. June 19, 2025
Email: ccb@upenn.edu
Office: AGH 420