Ingmar Weber | |
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![]() Weber speaking at the ITU AI for Good Global Summit 2018 | |
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]
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