Larry Birnbaum’s research and teaching focus on applied AI and human-AI collaboration. He and his students develop, study, and apply new technologies in natural language processing (NLP), conversational interfaces, intelligent information systems, social media data analytics, machine learning, and computational journalism and media. Key areas of research include methods for the automatic generation of content by machine, including specifically the automatic generation of narratives from data, and on natural human-AI collaboration using conversational interaction. Larry’s research also spans intelligent information systems, including models of automatic and contextual search and information diversity; preference predication and recommendation using social media data; and applications of AI to journalism and media. Another important area of Larry’s research is intelligent information systems, including models of automatic and contextual search and information diversity. A third focus is on preference predication and recommendation using social media data. More generally, projects in Larry’s lab are aimed at automating and supporting all aspects of the “content pipeline,” including research, content generation, content distribution, and user interaction with content. Dr. Birnbaum is a Professor of Computer Science at the Northwestern University. He is also the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Advisor, Narrative Science. His research and teaching focus on applied Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing (NLP), intelligent information systems, social media data analytics, machine learning, with applications to media and journalism. A key focus is on methods for the automatic generation of content by machine, including specifically the automatic generation of narratives from data.