Dr. Chris Hazard

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

Dr. Hazard is a leading expert in interpretable AI and machine learning technologies. As CTO of Diveplane, he oversees all technical R&D and is responsible for both the long-term vision of our platform and the near-term delivery and operation of all technical assets.  He holds 63 patent assets and has authored dozens of publications on privacy risks, trust and reputation in AI and machine learning systems. His most prominent publications include “The game of scale: Decision making with economies of scale” for which he received a Best Paper Award from the International Conference on Electronic Commerce, “Privacy Risks in Intelligent User Interfaces” which he presented at the IEEE Internet Computing on Natural Web Interfaces, and “Natively Interpretable Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence: Preliminary Results and Future Directions,” published by Cornell University.

Dr. Hazard is a renowned speaker, having delivered hundreds of talks including the keynote address on AI at the NATO International What-If? Workshop and the International Association of Privacy Professionals Global Privacy Summit. He is an active member of the CompTIA AI Advisory Council and has served as an advisor to NATO on cyber security policies.

Prior to co-founding Diveplane, Chris founded Hazardous Software, which focuses on decision support, visualization, and simulation for hard strategy problems in large organizations, DoD, and government.  He holds a PhD in computer science from N.C. State, with a focus on AI for trust and reputation.  Earlier in his career, he served as a software architect of CDMA infrastructure at Motorola and worked on robot coordination and logistics at Kiva Systems (now Amazon Robotics).