About the Speaker
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Dr. Andreas WeigendIndependent Consultant and Former Chief Scientist of Amazon.com |
Dr. Andreas Weigend is passionate about people and the data they create. Until 2004, he was the chief scientist of Amazon.com where he worked on building a customer-centric, measurement-focused culture. His main contributions were in the areas of computational marketing and incentive design. Deep insights into how people behave online were obtained by combining experiments with state of the art algorithms.
Andreas now works as an independent consultant with exciting firms including Alibaba, Lufthansa, MySpace, and Nokia. He helps them leverage the principles of the consumer data revolution for innovating products and business models. He also serves on boards and advisory boards of start ups, more on his blog (http://weigend.com/blog/). He is also a limited partner in San Francisco's Founders Fund II, and a partner at The Conversation Group working with its clients on emerging trends in social media and data strategy.
Andreas has published more than one hundred scientific papers and co-authored six books. He teaches the graduate course Data Mining and Electronic Commerce at Stanford University, and Marketing in Web2.0 at UC Berkeley. Prior, he served as a full-time faculty member at New York University's Stern School of Business, and at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Andreas studied electrical engineering, physics, and philosophy at Karlsruhe, Cambridge (Trinity College), and Bonn. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in physics, and was a researcher at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) and at the Santa Fe Institute.
