Ingmar Weber

Ingmar Weber is a senior scientist in the Social Computing group at Qatar Computing Research Institute. He studied mathematics at Cambridge University, UK, before doing his PhD at the Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science, Germany, and then moving on to the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Combining both academic and industrial research experience, he spent three years at Yahoo! Research in Barcelona, Spain as well as a summer at Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK before moving to Qatar.

In his research, he uses large amounts of online data from Twitter and other sources to study phenomena that affect society at large. Recent work has looked at political polarization in Egypt, at global gender inequality in online social networks, at international migration, at relationship breakups, and at food consumption and obesity seen through social media. His research is frequently featured in popular press such as the Washington Post, Forbes, NewScientist, Financial Times, or Foreign Policy. He occasionally writes about his work for Al Jazeera.