German computer scientist (born 1978)
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.[ 9] [ 10] [ 11] [ 12]
He has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in AI.[ 13]
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.[ 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]
Digital Gender Gaps
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]
References
^ "Qatar Computing Research Institute: Our People" . QCRI. 22 April 2020.
^ "Professors, Junior Faculty and Emeriti" .
^ "EPJ Data Science: Editorial Board" . Springer. Retrieved 22 August 2021 .
^ "International Conference on Web and Social Media: Editorial Team" . ICWSM. Retrieved 14 November 2018 .
^ "International Conference on Web and Social Media: Organization" . ICWSM. Retrieved 14 November 2018 .
^ "Association for Computing Machinery: 2021 Distinguished Members" . Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 8 April 2022 .
^ "Association for Computing Machinery: Distinguished Speakers" . Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 22 August 2021 .
^ "What people say before a break-up vs. what they say after" . The Washington Post . 25 September 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2018 .
^ "Quiz: Can we guess your age and income, based solely on the apps on your phone?" . The Washington Post . 3 March 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2018 .
^ "Atheists Tweet More Often Than Muslims, Jews And Christians: Study" . HuffPost. 6 October 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2018 .
^ "Black Lives Matter: The social media behind a movement" . Al Jazeera Media Network. 3 August 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2018 .
^ "Ingmar Weber - Humboldt Professorship for AI 2023" .
^ You are where you e-mail: using e-mail data to estimate international migration rates . ACM New York, NY, USA ©2012. 2012. pp. 348– 351. doi :10.1145/2380718.2380764 . ISBN 978-1-4503-1228-8 . S2CID 10165430 . Retrieved 14 November 2018 .
^ State, Bogdan; Weber, Ingmar; Zagheni, Emilio (2013). "Studying inter-national mobility through IP geolocation" . Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining - WSDM '13 . ACM New York, NY, USA ©2013. p. 265. doi :10.1145/2433396.2433432 . ISBN 978-1-4503-1869-3 . S2CID 18586006 . Retrieved 14 November 2018 .
^ Fiorio, Lee; Abel, Guy; Cai, Jixuan; Zagheni, Emilio; Weber, Ingmar; Vinué, Guillermo (2017). "Using Twitter Data to Estimate the Relationship between Short-term Mobility and Long-term Migration". Using Twitter Data to Estimate the Relationships between Short-term Mobility and Long-term Migration . ACM New York, NY, USA ©2017. pp. 103– 110. doi :10.1145/3091478.3091496 . ISBN 978-1-4503-4896-6 . S2CID 24458502 . Retrieved 14 November 2018 .
^ Messias, Johnnatan; Benevenuto, Fabricio; Weber, Ingmar; Zagheni, Emilio (2016). "From migration corridors to clusters: The value of Google+ data for migration studies". 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) . IEEE. pp. 421– 428. arXiv :1607.00421 . doi :10.1109/ASONAM.2016.7752269 . ISBN 978-1-5090-2846-7 . S2CID 11956606 .
^ European Commission. Joint Research Centre (2018). Publications Office of the European Union . Migration Data using Social Media: a European Perspective. pp. 978-92-79-87989-0. doi :10.2760/964282 . ISBN 9789279879890 . Retrieved 14 November 2018 .
^ Leveraging Facebook's Advertising Platform to Monitor Stocks of Migrants . Wiley Periodicals. 14 December 2017.
^ The Digital Traces of the Gender Digital Divide . Retrieved 14 November 2018 .
^ Fatehkia, Masoomali; Kashyap, Ridhi; Weber, Ingmar (2018). "Using Facebook ad data to track the global digital gender gap" (PDF) . World Development . 107 : 189– 209. doi :10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.03.007 .
^ "Digital Gender Gaps: Team" . Digital Gender Gaps Project. Retrieved 14 November 2018 .
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