Gerhard Weikum (born September 28, 1957) 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.

He is also the Dean of the International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science (IMPRS-CS).

Earlier he held positions at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany, at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, at MCC in Austin, Texas, and he was a visiting senior researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington.

In 2005 the Association for Computing Machinery appointed Gerhard Weikum a fellow,[3] one of the highest honors of the ACM.

In 2010 he was elected as a fellow of the Gesellschaft für Informatik[4] and received a Google Focused Research Award.