Mr. Kris Wright is an experienced data scientist who has worked in academia and industry. He is a PhD candidate at Old Dominion University in the Department of Modeling, Simulation, and Visualization Engineering. His dissertation focuses on the social network analysis and machine learning (predicting things on graphs). He is also a full-time data scientist as Cognitiv, a deep learning company located in Bethesda, MD, where he works on computational advertising and image recognition.