Regular biography
Christian Von Der Weth is a Senior Lecturer (Educator Track) in the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore. He received his PhD from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and M.Sc. from Ilmenau University of Technology in Germany. Prior to joining NUS, he worked as a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University and the National University of Ireland, Galway. His research interests include social media and social network analysis, applied machine learning and artificial intelligence, natural language processing, data mining, privacy, and information systems. He has contributed to several research projects and publications in these areas. He teaches courses such as Database Systems, Natural Language Processing, and Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
Scholar-generated biography
Christian von der Weth is a researcher at the National University of Singapore, focusing on natural language processing, machine learning, and information systems. His work explores the intersection of these fields, with an emphasis on cognitive load measurement in machine learning explanations, collective creativity in crowd ideation, and the development of decentralized systems for collaborative browsing and search. He also investigates algorithmic threats on social media, fake news mitigation, and the integration of physical and virtual environments through location-based services and smart sensing technologies. His research contributes to understanding user behavior, trust models, and multimodal event summarization in complex digital ecosystems.