Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Klaus Ackermann is a Lecturer (US Assistant Professor) in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His research interests are in the areas of Data Science, Machine Learning, Public Policy and Applied Econometrics.
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. After his studies, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Data Science and Public Policy at the University of Chicago.
Klaus Ackermann is a founding member of 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.
Research interests
My passion is in technology, economics, data and computational approaches to get exciting insights about human behaviour. Broadly speaking, my research sits under the headline: how does technological progress affect societies and vice versa? What behavioural patterns that were disguised previously can now be researched as people reveal their choices through the use of technology? How can we use collected data to improve operational outcomes of not for profit organizations by using Machine Learning ? There are social issues that need to be addressed on an individual level, but I believe it is possible to impact the world on an aggregate level by using data.
Network
-
"Myanmar: When a Country Goes Dark", internet suppression as a tool of control, as part of the JN Institute's Asian Stories Project
Angus, S., Ackermann, K., Raschky, P., Lim, L. & Bergin, J.
30/08/21 → 29/11/21
Project: Research
-
-
The Expansion of the Internet and Economic Growth Worldwide - A Spatial RD Design
Raschky, P., Ackermann, K. & Angus, S.
7/08/20 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
-
A new, high spatial-resolution, dataset on internet use in Australia
Ackermann, K., Angus, S. & Raschky, P.
1/09/13 → 30/06/15
Project: Research
-
Causal inference using global forecasting models for counterfactual prediction
Grecov, P., Bandara, K., Bergmeir, C., Ackermann, K., Campbell, S. C., Scott, D. & Lubman, D. I., 2021, Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 25th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2021, Virtual Event, May 11–14, 2021, Proceedings, Part II. Karlapalem, K., Cheng, H., Ramakrishnan, N., Agrawal, R. K., Reddy, P. K., Srivastava, J. & Chakraborty, T. (eds.). 1st ed. Cham Switzerland: Springer, Vol. 2. p. 282-294 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
-
Mobile phone coverage and violent conflict
Ackermann, K., Awaworyi Churchill, S. & Smyth, R., Aug 2021, In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 188, p. 269-287 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
-
Deploying machine learning models for public policy: a framework
Ackermann, K., Walsh, J., De Unánue, A., Naveed, H., Rivera, A. N., Lee, S. J., Bennett, J., Defoe, M., Cody, C., Haynes, L. & Ghani, R., 19 Jul 2018, KDD' 18 - Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining. Broder, A. & Spiliopoulou, M. (eds.). New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 15-22 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus) -
Early Intervention Systems: Predicting Adverse Interactions Between Police and the Public
Helsby, J., Carton, S., Joseph, K., Mahmud, A., Park, Y., Navarrete, A., Ackermann, K., Walsh, J., Haynes, L., Cody, C., Patterson, M. E. & Ghani, R., 1 Mar 2018, In: Criminal Justice Policy Review. 29, 2, p. 190-209 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
15 Citations (Scopus) -
Visualizing Meta-Explanations in Early Intervention Systems for Police Departments
Crockett, D., Walsh, J., Ackermann, K., Navarrete, A. & Ghani, R., 1 Oct 2017.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review