FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES
Dr. Ingmar Weber (PhD)
- Phone+(974) 4454 1442
- Office locationA157, 1st floor, HBKU Research Complex, B1
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.
Research Interests
- Computational Social Science
- Data for Development
- Migration
- Digital Demography
- AI for Good
- Precision Public Health
Experience
Research Director
Social Computing; Qatar Computing Research Institute
2017 - 2019Principal Scientist
Social Computing; Qatar Computing Research Institute
2016 - 2017Senior Scientist
Social Computing; Qatar Computing Research Institute
2012 - 2016Research Scientist
Web Mining Group; Yahoo Research Barcelona
2011 - 2012Postdoc
Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics
Summer 2002
Intern
Web Mining Group; Yahoo Research Barcelona
2009 - 2011Postdoc
Laboratory of Theory and Applications of Algorithms; Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2007 - 2009Visiting Researcher
Information Retrieval and Analysis Group; Microsoft Research Cambridge
Summer 2008PhD Student
Algorithms and Complexity Group; Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science
2003 - 2007
Education
Dr.-Ing
Saarland University; Saarbruecken/Germany
2007Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics
University of Cambridge; Cambridge/UK
2003
Bachelor of Arts
University of Cambridge; Cambridge/UK
2002
Selected Publications
Meysam Alizadeh, Ingmar Weber, Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, Santo Fortunato, Michael Macy
Psychology and Morality of Political Extremists: Evidence from Twitter Language Analysis of Alt-Right and Antifa; EPJ Data Science; 8:17, 2019
2019George Nitzburg, Elad Yom-Tov, Ingmar Weber
Internet 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
2019Masoomali Fatehkia, Dan O’Brien, Ingmar Weber
Correlated impulses: Using Facebook interests to improve predictions of crime rates in urban areas; PLOS ONE; 14(2), 2019
2019Ingmar Weber, Ridhi Kashyap, Emilio Zagheni
Using Advertising Audience Estimates to Improve Global Development Statistics; ITU Journal; Volume 1, Issue No 2, 2018
2018Enes Kocabey, Ferda Ofli, Javier Marin, Antonio Torralba, Ingmar Weber
Using Computer Vision to Study the Effects of BMI on Online Popularity and Weight-Based Homophily; SocInfo: Part II, 2018
2018Antoine Dubois, Emilio Zagheni, Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber
Studying Migrant Assimilation Through Facebook Interests; SocInfo: Part II, 2018
2018Masoomali Fatehkia, Ridhi Kashyap, Ingmar Weber
Using Facebook Ad Data to Track the Global Digital Gender Gap; World Development; Volume 107, 2018
2018Emilio Zagheni, Ingmar Weber, Krishna Gummadi
Leveraging Facebooks Advertising Platform to Monitor Stocks of Migrants; Population and Development Review: Vol. 43, Issue 4, 2017
2017Drew Margolin, Aniko Hannak, Ingmar Weber
Political Fact-Checking on Twitter: When Do Corrections Have an Effect?; Political Communication; vol. 35, issue 2, 2017
2017Amaia Salvador, Nicholas Hynes, Yusuf Aytar, Javier Marin, Ferda Ofli, Ingmar Weber, Antonio Torralba
Learning Cross-modal Embeddings for Cooking Recipes and Food Images; Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2017
2017Koustuv Saha, Ingmar Weber, Michael L. Birnbaum, Munmun De Choudhury
Characterizing Population Awareness of Schizophrenia Leveraging Facebook Advertisement Estimates; Journal of Medical Internet Research; vol. 19, iss. 5, 2017
2017Munmun de Choudhury, Mrinal Kumar, Ingmar Weber
Computational Approaches Toward Integrating Quantified Self Sensing and Social Media; Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2017
2017