# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerhard-weikum
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:40:58.301Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerhard-weikum"
name: "Gerhard Weikum"
slug: "gerhard-weikum"
description: "Gerhard Weikum is a German computer scientist and Research Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany, where he is leading the databases and information systems department. His current research interests include transactional and distributed systems, self-tuning database systems, data and text integration, and the automatic construction of knowledge bases. He is one of the creators of the YAGO knowledge base. He is also the Dean of the International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science (IMPRS-CS)."
tagline: "German database researcher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gerhard_Weikum.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1957"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.473290666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~weikum/"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Weikum"
    title: "Gerhard Weikum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "جيرهارد وايكوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "جيرهارد وايكوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A0%BC%E5%93%88%E7%89%B9%C2%B7%E5%A8%81%E8%82%AF"
    title: "格哈特·威肯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%BA%CE%AD%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%BD%CF%84_%CE%92%CE%AC%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BC"
    title: "Γκέρχαρντ Βάικουμ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Weikum"
    title: "Gerhard Weikum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92988"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump