Christopher Kanan Profile
Christopher Kanan

@chriskanan

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Professor | AI Researcher

Rochester, NY
Joined October 2010
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Christopher Kanan
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RT @CoLLAs_Conf: 🎉 Announcing the winners of the #CoLLAs2025 Early-Career Spotlight Program! . These rising stars are pushing the boundarie….
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Christopher Kanan
5 months
UR released this Q&A with me, where I discuss my thoughts on the current state of AI, progress towards AGI, and why LLMs won't suffice for AGI: #ai #agi.
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Computer scientist Christopher Kanan discusses AI, large language models, and responsible usage of artificial general intelligence.
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What do you want to know?.
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Christopher Kanan
6 months
Following my last essay about how AI will cause enormous reductions in college enrollments, I wrote a follow-up about what they can do to prepare: #ai #college #university.
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AI will reshape higher education, threatening enrollments and the value of traditional degrees. Universities must act to survive.
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Christopher Kanan
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RT @AcademicMinute: On @UofR Week: Human intelligence and artificial intelligence learn differently, but can that change?. Chris Kanan, ass….
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Christopher Kanan
6 months
I was featured on the Academic Minute, which airs on over 70 radio stations around the US and Canada. In the segment, I introduce continual learning for the non-AI audience: #ai #academicminute #continuallearning.
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Christopher Kanan
7 months
A proposed AI bill would, based on my read (and ChatGPT's), make it illegal in the USA to download AI code or weights created by Chinese companies, universities, etc. This is catastrophically shortsighted. Given that roughly half of the academic AI papers published in our.
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Christopher Kanan
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RT @CoLLAs_Conf: 📢 Exciting News! The Fourth Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs 2025) will be held at the University of Pennsyl….
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Christopher Kanan
10 months
RT @mundt_martin: Our Continual Causality Bridge is going into its 3rd edition at AAAI-25 @RealAAAI ! 🎉. Join us for a spectacular 2 days o….
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Continual Causality Bridge Website
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Christopher Kanan
1 year
After years of effort, we have published Virchow, the first million whole slide image (WSI) foundation model for histopathology, in Nature Medicine! It excels at detecting rare cancers, and we are fervently building new models on top of its incredibly diagnostic and robust.
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Christopher Kanan
2 years
My university made this lovely video about my work:
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Christopher Kanan
2 years
We won a new $2M NSF award to develop methods that are more sample efficient for deep learning on temporal prediction and control problems! My lab is collaborating with the labs of Dhireesha Kudithipudi, Itamar Lerner, and Garret Rose for this exciting project.
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Christopher Kanan
2 years
I took part in a discussion hosted by the Rochester Beacon on the benefits/risks from recent AI advances. It was a fun conversation: .
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Panelists at the Rochester Beacon’s May 23 online discussion, “The AI Dilemma: Risks, Rewards & Regulation,” agreed that advanced artificial intelligence will bring wide-ranging benefits but not...
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Christopher Kanan
4 years
RT @lukeauburn: #RIT Associate Professor @chriskanan received a @NSF CAREER Award to improve artificial intelligence systems by mimicking t….
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Christopher Kanan
4 years
My lab received a phase 2 award from DARPA/SRI where we will be integrating systems we made during phase 1 into SRI's Starcraft 2 AI system. We did a lot of great work during phase 1, which ran from 2018 until the end of 2020. @TylerLHayes has done a tremendous job on the project.
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4 years
Watch out Zerg, @RITimagingsci Assistant Professor @chriskanan earned DARPA funding to develop artificial intelligence systems capable of playing #starcraft2 #RITNews @RITscience
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Christopher Kanan
4 years
RT @paige_ai: We're excited to announce that we've secured financing from @KKR_Co for a total Series C funding round of over $125 million!….
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Paige, a global leader in AI-based diagnostic software in pathology, today announced that KKR, a leading global investment firm, joined Casdin Capital and Jo...
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Christopher Kanan
5 years
RT @paige_ai: We're excited to announce a #SeriesC funding round of $100 million to accelerate development of AI-based clinical application….
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Paige, a global leader in AI-based digital diagnostics, today announced a Series C funding round of $100 million to accelerate the Company’s efforts to trans...
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Christopher Kanan
5 years
RT @manoja328: Check out our new work to be presented at @bmvc2020 We present the most efficient ways to do streaming object detection here….
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Christopher Kanan
5 years
RT @TylerLHayes: Check out our #ECCV2020 paper on REMIND, a brain-inspired approach to online learning!.@kushalkafle @ShresthaRobik @manoja….
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Christopher Kanan
5 years
Very proud to be a part of Paige. This is an amazing achievement!.
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Paige
5 years
The FullFocusTM viewer is #FDACleared, offering an intuitive user experience so pathologists can conduct #DigitalDiagnosis. Learn more: Read more:
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