Larry Birnbaum is an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and of journalism, at Northwestern University, as well as a founder and chief scientific advisor of Narrative Science Inc. At Northwestern, Birnbaum is cocirector of the Intelligent Information Lab, and a founder of the Knight Lab, an interdisciplinary center for innovation in technology, media, and journalism. He formerly served as chair of the Computer Science Department. At Narrative Science, Birnbaum focuses on technology and IP. He received his BS and PhD degrees from Yale, and was on the faculty there before joining Northwestern.