Andreas Weigend
Andreas Sebastian Weigend is the former Chief Scientist of Amazon.com and the author of the book Data for the People. He is a member of Germany’s Digital Council "Digitalrat".
He teaches the course "Social Data Revolution" on applications of predictive analytics and the impact of big data and artificial intelligence on individuals, business and society at the University of California at Berkeley and at Fudan in Shanghai. He has advised several startup companies and consulted for various others.
Weigend studied physics and philosophy at the University of Bonn and received a PhD in Physics from Stanford University in 1991.
