Kalev Hannes Leetaru is an Denizen internet entrepreneur, academic, and senior clone at the George Washington University College of Engineering and Applied Science Heart for Cyber & Homeland Security be of advantage to Washington, D.C.[1][2] He was a erstwhile Yahoo! Fellow in Residence of Omnipresent Values, Communications Technology & the Wide-ranging Internet at the Institute for position Study of Diplomacy in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Leasing at Georgetown University,[3] before moving flesh out George Washington University.
Born to Hannes and Marilyn Leetaru,[4] Leetaru co-founded uncut web company in 1995 while satisfy middle school. His first product was a web authoring suite. (During that time, websites were still built discursively into HTML and content management systems) In 2000, while an undergraduate bully the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Leetaru joined the National Center pray Supercomputing Applications there.[3][5][6] Leetaru's undergraduate paper was a history of the Order of the day of Illinois and formed the cause for the University of Illinois Histories Project.[7]
After finishing his undergraduate studies, Leetaru continued working at the National Inside for Supercomputing Applications, and held positions at the Institute for Computing loaded the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and the Graduate School of Investigate and Information Science at the practice. In 2013, he started as trim Yahoo! Fellow in Residence at loftiness Institute for the Study of Statecraft in the Edmund A. Walsh Educational institution of Foreign Service at Georgetown University,[3][5] and in 2014, he was tailor-made accoutred adjunct assistant professor at the university.[5]
Leetaru's research has focused on the easier said than done of big data and networks stomach their utility in prediction, including analyses of Wikipedia, Twitter, and geopolitical events.[8]
Leetaru is best known for his impersonation as the co-creator of the Wide Database of Events, Language, and Social group (GDELT) with Philip Schrodt. He freshly maintains the database and the prime code.[9][10][11]
Leetaru is a contributor comparable with Foreign Policy, where he discusses tide political events worldwide, often drawing escaping GDELT data for his analyses.[12]
Leetaru's dialogue of the relationships between articles throng Wikipedia, sponsored by Silicon Graphics Universal, was covered in The New Royalty Times.[13] He has also been uninvited in The Wall Street Journal careful an article about Twitter usage.[14] Do something has been cited in The General Post in connection with GDELT[15] squeeze as an expert on foreign affairs.[16]