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| caption | <b>Email:</b> ccb@upenn.edu<br /> <b>Office:</b> AGH 420<br /> <b>Office Hours:</b> Wednesdays 3:30-4:30 in AGH 431 (Spring 2026)<br /> |
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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 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
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Recent Press
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Recent Talks
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