Andreas Weigend

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]

Andreas S. Weigend
Born	1961 (age 63–64) Freiburg i. Br.
Nationality	German
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	University of Bonn Stanford University
Spouse	Zuoren Pan (m. 2022)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley, Tsinghua University, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Fudan
Doctoral advisor	David Rumelhart

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]