Christopher Kanan
Christopher Kanan
University of Rochester
Names
Emails
****@rit.edu
, ****@gmail.com
, ****@cs.rochester.edu
, ****@paige.ai
Personal Links
Education & Career History
Associate Professor
University of Rochester (rochester.edu)
2022 – Present
Associate Professor
Rochester Institute of Technology (rit.edu)
2021 – 2022
Visiting Associate Professor
Cornell Tech (cornell.edu)
2021 – 2022
Director of AI Science
Paige.AI, Inc. (paige.ai)
2021 – 2022
Visiting Assistant Professor
Cornell Tech (cornell.edu)
2019 – 2021
Senior AI Scientist
Paige.AI, Inc. (paige.ai)
2018 – 2021
Assistant Professor
Rochester Institute of Technology (rit.edu)
2015 – 2021
Research Technologist
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (jpl.nasa.gov)
2014 – 2015
Postdoc
California Institute of Technology (caltech.edu)
2013 – 2014
PhD student
University of California, San Diego (ucsd.edu)
2007 – 2013
Intern
HRL (hrl.com)
2005 – 2007
MS student
University of Southern California (usc.edu)
2004 – 2006
Undergrad student
Oklahoma State University (okstate.edu)
2002 – 2004
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
PhD Advisee
Yousuf Harun
****@rit.edu
2020 – Present
PhD Advisee
Jhair Gallardo
****@rit.edu
2019 – Present
PhD Advisee
Robik Shrestha
****@rit.edu
2018 – 2022
PhD Advisee
Manoj Acharya
****@rit.edu
2017 – 2021
PhD Advisee
Tyler Hayes
****@rit.edu
2016 – 2021
PhD Advisee
Kushal Kafle
****@rit.edu
2015 – 2020
PhD Advisee
Ronald Kemker
****@mtu.edu
2015 – 2018
Postdoc Advisor
Curtis Padgett
****@jpl.nasa.gov
2013 – 2014
PhD Advisor
Garrison Cottrell
****@ucsd.edu
2007 – 2013
Expertise
Multi-modal large language models
2022 – Present
Computational pathology
2017 – Present
Vision grounded natural language understanding
2014 – Present
Lifelong machine learning
2010 – Present
Continual learning
2010 – Present
Brain-inspired AI
2004 – Present
visual question answering
2014 – 2020