Ingmar Weber | |
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Born | |
Nationality | German |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge, Saarland University |
Thesis | Efficient index structures for and applications of the CompleteSearch engine (2007) |
Doctoral advisor | Hannah Bast |
Academic work | |
Main interests | Computational social science |
Website | https://ingmarweber.de/ |
Ingmar Weber is a German computer scientist known for his research on Computational Social Science in which he uses online data to study population behavior. He was the Research Director for Social Computing[1] at the Qatar Computing Research Institute, and is a Professor at Saarland University.[2] He serves as editor-in-chief for EPJ Data Science.[3] Previously, he served as editor-in-chief for the International Conference on Web and Social Media.[4][5] Weber is also an ACM Distinguished Member,[6] as well as an ACM Distinguished Speaker.[7] Weber's research has been widely covered in the media.[8][9][10][11][12]
He has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in AI.[13]
Weber currently works with international agencies on developing new methodologies for monitoring international migration and digital gender gaps.
While at Yahoo! Research, Weber pioneered the use of geo-located email login data to study migration and mobility patterns.[14][15] He has since also analyzed data from Twitter and Google Plus for similar studies.[16][17]
He now works with experts at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre and International Organization for Migration to use Facebook's advertising audience estimates to obtain timely insights into migration flows.[18][19]
He works with the United Nations Foundation's Data2X initiative to study digital gender gaps, in particular internet access gender gaps.[20][21] With support by the Data2X initiative he helped create a website for real-time monitoring of different types of digital gender gaps.[22]