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 35,000 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 Papers
- Autorubric: Unifying Rubric-based LLM Evaluation. Delip Rao, Chris Callison-Burch. COLM, 2026.
- Scaling Text-Rich Image Understanding via Code-Guided Synthetic Multimodal Data Generation. Yue Yang, Ajay Patel, Matt Deitke, Tanmay Gupta, Luca Weihs, et al.. ACL, 2025. Senior Area Chair highlight award at ACL 2025
- Molmo and PixMo: Open Weights and Open Data for State-of-the-Art Vision-Language Models. Matt Deitke, Christopher Clark, Sangho Lee, Rohun Tripathi, Yue Yang, et al.. CVPR, 2025. Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at CVPR 2025
- Media Bias Detector: Designing and Implementing a Tool for Real-Time Selection and Framing Bias Analysis in News Coverage. Jenny S Wang, Samar Haider, Amir Tohidi, Anushkaa Gupta, Yuxuan Zhang, Chris Callison-Burch, David Rothschild, Duncan J Watts. CHI, 2025.
- ReDel: A Toolkit for LLM-Powered Recursive Multi-Agent Systems. Andrew Zhu, Liam Dugan, Chris Callison-Burch. EMNLP, 2024.
Recent Press
- Communications of the ACM."Can AI Detectors Be Trusted?" by Samuel Greengard. June 23, 2026
- ABC 6 Action News WPVI-TV Philadelphia."Living with AI: How artificial intelligence could impact the job market" by Christie Ileto. March 5, 2026
- The Christian Science Monitor."I trusted AI with daily decisions. The way it dived in, experts say, raises flags." by Caitlin Babcock. March 3, 2026
- The Pennsylvania Gazette."Hyper Text" by Trey Popp. February 27, 2026
- Vox."AI agents could change your life — if they don't ruin it first" by Adam Clark Estes. February 5, 2026
Recent Talks
- 25th Annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate at the American Museum of Natural History, moderated by Neil deGrasse Tyson. AI: Promises, Pitfalls, & Perils. March 17, 2026
- The 2026 University of Pennsylvania MLK Symposium. AI and the Dream. January 28, 2026
- JHU AITC Conference on Large Language Models and Large Foundational Models. A Brief History, But Long Impact of LLMs. November 20, 2025
- 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
- USLI. What is AI, and will it take your job?. September 9, 2025
Email: ccb@upenn.eduOffice: AGH 420
Office Hours: By appointment for Summer 2026