Chris Callison-burch
Professor at University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolChris Callison-Burch is a Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania and the faculty director of the Online Masters of Engineering in AI, with two decades of experience in Natural Language Processing and language-model research. He has authored over 100 publications cited more than 25,000 times and has played visible roles shaping the field, including testifying before Congress on generative AI in 2023. His undergraduate and graduate training from Stanford and Edinburgh underpin a career that spans leading academic posts, influential conference leadership (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL), and industry research visits at the Allen Institute for AI. Chris teaches one of Penn’s largest AI courses—over 500 students each fall—demonstrating a rare ability to scale complex technical material to large audiences. Known for combining rigorous research with public engagement, he routinely moves between deep technical work and broader policy and community leadership.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Informatics, PhD, Informatics at The University of EdinburghBachelor's degree, Symbolic Systems, Bachelor's degree, Symbolic Systems at Stanford
Github Skills (52)
computation10
crowdsourcing10
jekyll10
image-synthesis9
algolia9
high-resolution9
image-resolution9
jekyll-theme9
triangular8
utterances8
github-pages8
algolia-search8
ruler8
text-to-image8
robotics7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
callison-burch/wikipydia
Jan 2010 - Feb 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 5 years 1 month
apipythonapi-sinterestwikipedia
interactive-fiction-class/interactive-fiction-class.github.io
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:347 commits, 3 PRs, 373 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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