Ingmar Weber

Ingmar Weber
Weber speaking at the ITU AI for Good Global Summit 2018
Born (1978-09-14) 14 September 1978 (age 48)
Minden, Germany
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Cambridge, Saarland University
ThesisEfficient index structures for and applications of the CompleteSearch engine (2007)
Hannah Bast
Academic work
Main interests
Computational social science
Websitehttps://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 at the Qatar Computing Research Institute, and is a Professor at Saarland University. He serves as editor-in-chief for EPJ Data Science. Previously, he served as editor-in-chief for the International Conference on Web and Social Media. Weber's research has been widely covered in the media.

Research

Weber currently works with international agencies on developing new methodologies for monitoring international migration and digital gender gaps.

Migration

While at Yahoo! Research, Weber pioneered the use of geo-located email login data to study migration and mobility patterns. He has since also analyzed data from Twitter and Google Plus for similar studies.

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.

Digital Gender Gaps

He works with the United Nations Foundation's Data2X initiative to study digital gender gaps, in particular internet access gender gaps. With support by the Data2X initiative he helped create a website for real-time monitoring of different types of digital gender gaps.

Awards and honors

Weber is an ACM Distinguished Member and was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in AI. He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He has completed over 100 marathons and is a member of the 100 Marathon Club Deutschland.

References

  1. ↑ "Qatar Computing Research Institute: Our People". QCRI. 22 April 2020.
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  3. ↑ "EPJ Data Science: Editorial Board". Springer. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  4. ↑ "International Conference on Web and Social Media: Editorial Team". ICWSM. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  5. ↑ "International Conference on Web and Social Media: Organization". ICWSM. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  6. ↑ "Association for Computing Machinery: Distinguished Speakers". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  7. ↑ "How Twitter Explains Egypt's Bloody Politics". Foreign Policy. 10 July 2013. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  8. ↑ "What people say before a break-up vs. what they say after". The Washington Post. 25 September 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  9. ↑ "Quiz: Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone?". The Washington Post. 3 March 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  10. ↑ "Atheists Tweet More Often Than Muslims, Jews And Christians: Study". HuffPost. 6 October 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  11. ↑ "Black Lives Matter: The social media behind a movement". Al Jazeera Media Network. 3 August 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  12. ↑ You are where you e-mail: using e-mail data to estimate international migration rates. ACM New York, NY, USA ©2012. 2012. pp. 348–351. doi:10.1145/2380718.2380764. ISBN 978-1-4503-1228-8. S2CID 10165430. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  13. ↑ State, Bogdan; Weber, Ingmar; Zagheni, Emilio (2013). "Studying inter-national mobility through IP geolocation". Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining - WSDM '13. ACM New York, NY, USA ©2013. p. 265. doi:10.1145/2433396.2433432. ISBN 978-1-4503-1869-3. S2CID 18586006. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  14. ↑ Fiorio, Lee; Abel, Guy; Cai, Jixuan; Zagheni, Emilio; Weber, Ingmar; Vinué, Guillermo (2017). "Using Twitter Data to Estimate the Relationship between Short-term Mobility and Long-term Migration". Using Twitter Data to Estimate the Relationships between Short-term Mobility and Long-term Migration. ACM New York, NY, USA ©2017. pp. 103–110. doi:10.1145/3091478.3091496. ISBN 978-1-4503-4896-6. S2CID 24458502. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  15. ↑ Messias, Johnnatan; Benevenuto, Fabricio; Weber, Ingmar; Zagheni, Emilio (2016). "From migration corridors to clusters: The value of Google+ data for migration studies". 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM). IEEE. pp. 421–428. arXiv:1607.00421. doi:10.1109/ASONAM.2016.7752269. ISBN 978-1-5090-2846-7. S2CID 11956606.
  16. ↑ European Commission. Joint Research Centre (2018). Publications Office of the European Union. Migration Data using Social Media: a European Perspective. pp. 978-92-79-87989-0. doi:10.2760/964282. ISBN 9789279879890. Retrieved 14 November 2018.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  17. ↑ Leveraging Facebook's Advertising Platform to Monitor Stocks of Migrants. Wiley Periodicals. 14 December 2017.
  18. ↑ The Digital Traces of the Gender Digital Divide. Retrieved 14 November 2018.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  19. ↑ Fatehkia, Masoomali; Kashyap, Ridhi; Weber, Ingmar (2018). "Using Facebook ad data to track the global digital gender gap" (PDF). World Development. 107: 189–209. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.03.007.
  20. ↑ "Digital Gender Gaps: Team". Digital Gender Gaps Project. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  21. ↑ "Association for Computing Machinery: 2021 Distinguished Members". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  22. ↑ "Ingmar Weber - Humboldt Professorship for AI 2023".
  23. ↑ "Elected AAAI Fellows". Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Retrieved 25 February 2026.
  24. ↑ "Statistics for Members of the 100 Marathon Club Germany" (PDF). 100 Marathon Club Deutschland e.V. Retrieved 6 April 2026.