Dr Ingmar Weber is the research director of the Social Computing Group at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI). His interdisciplinary research looks at what online user-generated data can tell us about the offline world and society at large. He works with sociologists, political scientists, demographers and medical professionals as well as with UN agencies and NGOs in the Data for Development space. Prior to joining QCRI, Dr Weber was a researcher at Yahoo Research Barcelona. As an undergraduate he studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge before pursuing a PhD at the Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science. He is an ACM, IEEE and AAAI Senior Member and serves as an ACM Distinguished Speaker.
Social Computing; Qatar Computing Research Institute
2017 - 2019Social Computing; Qatar Computing Research Institute
2016 - 2017Social Computing; Qatar Computing Research Institute
2012 - 2016Web Mining Group; Yahoo Research Barcelona
2011 - 2012Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics
Summer 2002Web Mining Group; Yahoo Research Barcelona
2009 - 2011Laboratory of Theory and Applications of Algorithms; Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2007 - 2009Information Retrieval and Analysis Group; Microsoft Research Cambridge
Summer 2008Algorithms and Complexity Group; Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science
2003 - 2007Saarland University; Saarbruecken/Germany
2007University of Cambridge; Cambridge/UK
2003University of Cambridge; Cambridge/UK
2002Psychology and Morality of Political Extremists: Evidence from Twitter Language Analysis of Alt-Right and Antifa; EPJ Data Science; 8:17, 2019
2019Internet Searches for Medical Symptoms Preceding the Seeking of Twelve-Step Addiction Treatment Information: A Web Search Log Analysis; Journal of Medical Internet Research; vol. 21, no. 5, 2019
2019Correlated impulses: Using Facebook interests to improve predictions of crime rates in urban areas; PLOS ONE; 14(2), 2019
2019Using Advertising Audience Estimates to Improve Global Development Statistics; ITU Journal; Volume 1, Issue No 2, 2018
2018Using Computer Vision to Study the Effects of BMI on Online Popularity and Weight-Based Homophily; SocInfo: Part II, 2018
2018Studying Migrant Assimilation Through Facebook Interests; SocInfo: Part II, 2018
2018Using Facebook Ad Data to Track the Global Digital Gender Gap; World Development; Volume 107, 2018
2018Leveraging Facebooks Advertising Platform to Monitor Stocks of Migrants; Population and Development Review: Vol. 43, Issue 4, 2017
2017Political Fact-Checking on Twitter: When Do Corrections Have an Effect?; Political Communication; vol. 35, issue 2, 2017
2017Learning Cross-modal Embeddings for Cooking Recipes and Food Images; Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2017
2017Characterizing Population Awareness of Schizophrenia Leveraging Facebook Advertisement Estimates; Journal of Medical Internet Research; vol. 19, iss. 5, 2017
2017Computational Approaches Toward Integrating Quantified Self Sensing and Social Media; Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2017
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