Christopher Kanan
Christopher Kanan
Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Rochester
- Joined December 2017
Names
Emails
****@rit.edu (Confirmed)
, ****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
, ****@cs.rochester.edu (Confirmed)
, ****@paige.ai (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Associate Professor
Computer Science, University of Rochester (rochester.edu)
2022 – Present
Associate Professor
Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology (rit.edu)
2021 – 2022
Visiting Associate Professor
Computer Science, Cornell Tech (cornell.edu)
2021 – 2022
Director of AI Science
Paige.AI, Inc. (paige.ai)
2021 – 2022
Visiting Assistant Professor
Computer Science, Cornell Tech (cornell.edu)
2019 – 2021
Senior AI Scientist
Paige.AI, Inc. (paige.ai)
2018 – 2021
Assistant Professor
Imaging Science, 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
Computer Science, University of California, San Diego (ucsd.edu)
2007 – 2013
Intern
Brain-Inspired Cognitive Architectures, HRL (hrl.com)
2005 – 2007
MS student
Computer Science, University of Southern California (usc.edu)
2004 – 2006
Undergrad student
Computer Science / Philosophy, Oklahoma State University (okstate.edu)
2002 – 2004
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
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
Artificial General Intelligence
2010 – Present
Brain-inspired AI
2004 – Present
visual question answering
2014 – 2020