Andrew Hampton, Ph.D. is a research scientist assistant professor at the Institute for Intelligent Systems, within the University of Memphis. His current duties include serving as a grant coordinator and project manager on the pioneering hybrid tutor ElectronixTutor. He is also one of the development leaders on a conversational AI meant to aid in career planning through education and qualification tracking, intelligent recommendation, and mitigation of personal issues. Andrew's research interests include technologically mediated communication, psycholinguistics, semiotics, adaptive educational technology, artificial intelligence, and political psychology. He also serves as the current Chairman for the IEEE Project 2247 working group which is working for the development of standards and recommended practices for AISs.