Andreas Weigend

Artist, Brainstormer, Business adviser, Business mentor, Change Agent, Concerned citizen, Connector, Consultant, Educator/Teacher, Explorer, Gay, Idea generator, Marketer, Musician, Performer, Photographer, Scientist, Single, Technologist, Web guru, World traveler

Hello, my name is Andreas Weigend. I am interested in identity and trust. I was the Chief Scientist at Amazon, where I worked directly with Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy. I advised Jack Ma, Angela Merkel, and others on data and innovation. I am always curious about the data we create, whether we know it or not, and what we can learn. I work with startups and help companies get value out of data. The General Assembly of the United Nations invited me to give a speech on data. I also served in the German Cyber and Innovation Hub as Oberstleutnant. I spent three years of my life writing a book. It’s called “Data for the People” and has been translated into eight languages. In terms of education, I went to Karlsruhe (Germany) to study electrical engineering and physics, followed by a year at Trinity College, Cambridge (UK). My undergraduate degrees are in physics and philosophy from Bonn (Germany). In 1986, I came to Stanford. I worked with Dave Rumelhart and Jerry Friedman on neural networks for prediction and time series analysis, and received my PhD in physics. I was a post-doc at Xerox PARC, assistant professor at CU Boulder, associate professor at NYU and taught courses at UC Berkeley and Stanford. I live in San Francisco and am happily married to Zuoren Pan, a data scientist at otter.ai.

people and the data they create

Imagine... ... you had all the data of the world at your fingertips, what would you create - for yourself, as an individual, - for a company you believe in, - for a society you want to live in?

Big Data, China, Customer Centricity, Marketing, predictive analytics, Round the World Tickets, Small Data, Social - Local - Mobile, Social Data, Thailand

playing the cello.