Ingmar Weber is a German computer scientist known for his research on

Computational Social Science Computational social science is an interdisciplinary academic sub-field concerned with computational approaches to the social sciences. This means that computers are used to model, simulate, and analyze social phenomena. It has been applied in a ...

in which he uses online data to study population behavior. He was the Research Director for Social Computing at the

Qatar Computing Research Institute The Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) in Doha, Qatar, is a nonprofit multidisciplinary computing research institute founded by the Qatar Foundation (QF) for Education, Science and Community Development in 2010. It is primarily funded by t ...

, and is a Professor at

Saarland University Saarland University (, ) is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in six faculties that cover all major ...

. 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 is also an ACM Distinguished Member, as well as an ACM Distinguished Speaker. Weber's research has been widely covered in the media. He has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in AI.

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

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and

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for similar studies. He now works with experts at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre and

International Organization for Migration The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is a United Nations related organization working in the field of migration. The organization implements operational assistance programmes for Human migration, migrants, including internally displa ...

to use

Facebook Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms, Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andre ...

'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.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Weber, Ingmar Living people 1978 births German computer scientists