Kristian Hammond
Kristian Hammond holds degrees in philosophy and computer science from Yale. His research covers natural language and narrative generation, conversational interfaces and computational creativity, linking language technology with useful explanations. Hammond and Larry Birnbaum founded Narrative Science. Its Narratives for Business Intelligence tools generated plain-language explanations from business data and visualizations and received a Chicago Innovation Award in 2017. Hammond leads Northwestern’s AI master’s program and Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence. These roles extend his documented language-generation work into AI education and research on safety and harm.
- Now at
- Northwestern University
- Works
- 203
- Citations
- 5,203
- h-index
- 27
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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Education and research
Language and intelligence
Kristian Hammond holds degrees in philosophy and computer science from Yale. His research covers natural language and narrative generation, conversational interfaces and computational creativity, linking language technology with useful explanations.
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2017
Narrative Science
Hammond and Larry Birnbaum founded Narrative Science. Its Narratives for Business Intelligence tools generated plain-language explanations from business data and visualizations and received a Chicago Innovation Award in 2017.
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As of October 2026
Safety research and education
Hammond leads Northwestern’s AI master’s program and Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence. These roles extend his language-generation work into AI education and research on safety and harm.
Sources and credits
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