Biography
Dr. Ingmar Weber is the Research Director for Social Computing at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI). His interdisciplinary research, which has been in published in over 150 peer-reviewed articles, looks at what online user-generated data can tell us about the offline world and society at large. Working closely with sociologists and demographers, he has pioneered the use of online advertising data for complementing official statistics on international migration, digital gender gaps, and poverty. The analyses performed by his team have been used to improve operations by UN agencies and NGOs ranging from Colombia to the Philippines. 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.