Chris Callison-Burch

Chris Callison-Burch is a Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he leads research in Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, and Multimodal Learning. Previously, he worked at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Language and Speech Processing for six years.

• Research Areas
  • Automated paraphrasing and natural language understanding
  • Machine translation without bilingual parallel corpora
  • Crowdsourcing for NLP and social justice applications
  • Generative AI and vision-language models

Recent work focuses on LLM soundness guarantees, multimodal reasoning, AI-generated text detection, and ethical applications of language models. His research has been cited over 25,000 times, and he testified before Congress in 2023 on generative AI and copyright law.

• Awards & Funding
  • Sloan Research Fellow
  • Faculty awards from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and Roblox
  • Grants from DARPA, IARPA, and NSF

He chairs major NLP conferences (ACL 2017, EMNLP 2015) and contributes to editorial boards of TACL and Computational Linguistics.