Klaus Ackermann is an Associate Professor in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His research interests are in the areas of Artifical Intelligence, Causal Inference, Applied Econometrics, and Alternative Data.
He holds a PhD in Economics from Monash University and BSc and MSc in Business Informatics with major in Economics from the Technical University of Vienna. He pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Data Science and Public Policy at the University of Chicago.
Klaus is a founding member of Monash SoDa Labs, an empirical research laboratory associated with Monash University’s Department of Economics and Department of Econometrics in the Monash Business School. SoDa Labs applies new tools from data science, machine learning, and beyond to answer social science questions using alternative and big data.
Klaus is also the co-founder and one of the directors of KASPR Datahaus Pty. Ltd. and co-founder of the IP Observatory.