Martin Hilbert

Martin Hilbert
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]