Andreas S. Weigend | |
Birth Place: | Freiburg i. Br. |
Citizenship: | United States |
Nationality: | German |
Field: | Computer Science |
Work Institutions: | Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley, Tsinghua University, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Fudan |
Alma Mater: | University of Bonn Stanford University |
Doctoral Advisor: | David Rumelhart |
Spouse: | Zuoren Pan (m. 2022) |
Andreas Sebastian Weigend (born 1961) is the author of the book Data for the People (Basic Books, 2017). He was a member of Germany's Digital Council under Merkel, Digitalrat.[1]
Weigend studied physics and philosophy at the University of Bonn and received a PhD in physics from Stanford University in 1991. He was the Chief Scientist at Amazon.com.[2]