Dr. Kristian Hammond is CTO and one of the founders of Narrative Science. Narrative Science is a Chicago-based technology company which turns data into stories and insights through its proprietary artificial intelligence platform which produces narrative reports, articles, summaries and more that are automatically created from structured data sources. Mr. Hamond is currently on leave from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University. He is an accomplished researcher in the areas of human-machine interaction, context-driven information systems and artificial intelligence. After completing his Ph.D. in computer science at Yale University in 1986, Dr. Hammond founded The University of Chicago’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Under his direction, the laboratory flourished as a center for innovative artificial intelligence research for over a decade. In 1998, Dr. Hammond moved to Northwestern University to form Northwestern’s Intelligent Information Laboratory (InfoLab) and began focusing on the generation of content based on search and data analytics.