Kristian Hammond is the Chief Scientist and co-founder of Narrative Science and a professor of Computer Science and Journalism at Northwestern University. At Narrative Science, Kris’ main priority is future of Advanced NLG, the democratization of data through automatic language generation and the challenges and opportunities of interfacing with machine through language. Prior to moving to Northwestern, Kris founded the University of Chicago’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His research has always been focused on artificial intelligence, machine-generated content and context-driven information systems.