Martin Hilbert | |
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![]() Hilbert presenting at Puerto de Ideas | |
Born | 1977 (age 46–47) |
Nationality | German - USA |
Alma mater | University of Southern California (PhD) University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (Dr. rer.pol.) |
Known for | Big Data[1] Information explosion eLAC Action Plans.[2] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computational Social Science, Information Theory, Complex Systems, Information Society |
Institutions | University of California, Davis |
Doctoral advisors | Manuel Castells (2012) Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider (2006) |
Martin Hilbert (born in 1977) is a social scientist who is a professor at the University of California where he chairs the campus-wide emphasis on Computational Social Science.[3] He studies societal digitalization. His work is recognized in academia for the first study that assessed how much information there is in the world;[4] in public policy for having designed the first digital action plan with the governments of Latin America and the Caribbean at the United Nations (eLAC Action Plans); and in the popular media for having alerted about the intervention of Cambridge Analytica a year before the scandal broke.[5]