Qatar Computing Research Institute
Discovery to Delivery
Dr. Ingmar Weber
Senior Scientist
Social Computing
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I’m very excited to be in Doha and to be part of QCRI and to have a chance to contribute to its exciting and ambitious mission.
Research Focus at QCRI
At QCRI, Ingmar works on social media mining, web science and computational political science. Common to most of his research is the use of online data to understand offline behavior.
Previous Experience
Before joining QCRI, Ingmar was a research scientist at Yahoo! Research in Barcelona working in the area of web mining, analyzing large sets of user log data. Previously, he was a postdoc at EPFL working on sponsored search auctions, tag recommendation and other things. In the summer of 2008 he visited Microsoft Research Cambridge and, before starting his PhD, interned with companies in the area of public key cryptography and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics. He did his PhD at the Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science and holds BA and MA degrees in mathematics from Cambridge University.
Professional Experience
- Yahoo! Research Barcelona, research scientist, 2011-2012
- Yahoo! Research Barcelona, postdoc, 2009-2011
- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, postdoc, 2007-2009
- Microsoft Research Cambridge, visiting researcher, summer 2008
- Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics, intern, summer 2002
- Cryptovision GmbH, intern, summer, 2001
- TrustCenter AG, intern, summer 2000
Professional Associations and Awards
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science (summa cum laude), Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science, Germany, 2007
- M.A. in Mathematics (distinction), Cambridge University, United Kingdom, 2003
- B.A. in Mathematics (first class), Cambridge University, United Kingdom, 2002
Selected Research
- Ingmar Weber, Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella and Erik Borra, “Mining web query logs to analyze political issues”, WebSci 2012, pp. 330-334, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2380718.2380761
- Emilio Zagheni and Ingmar Weber, “You are where you e-mail: using e-mail data to estimate international migration rates”, WebSci 2012, pp. 348-351, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2380718.2380764
- Adish Singla and Ingmar Weber, “Camera Brand Congruence and Camera Model Propagation in the Flickr Social Graph”, TWEB, volume 5, issue 4, article no. 20 (October 2011), http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2019643.2019647
- Ingmar Weber and Alejandro Jaimes, “Who uses web search for what: and how”, WSDM 2011, pp. 15-24, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1935839
- Ingmar Weber and Carlos Castillo, “The demographics of web search”, SIGIR 2010, pp. 523-530, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1835537
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In the News
The Role of Technology in Crisis Management and How it Could Be Done Better
08/05/2013
QCRI's Patrick Meier discusses technology and crisis management with Chicago Policy Review.
Can 'Verily' build a smarter social media for disasters?
08/05/2013
QCRI's Patrick Meier talks with Foreign Policy Magazine about sharing information during a crisis, and verifying that information for aid.
06/05/2013
QCRI's partnership with the World Bank, UN Agencies and Data Kind is discussed in this article about data analysis. Originally published in the Harvard Business Review.
Upcoming Events
2013
29/05/2013,
Rhodes Island, Greece
Dr. Halima Bensmail, Senior Scientist of QCRI's Scientific Computing team, is an Invited speaker at the PETRAE, giving a talk on “Time course and Neural Representation of Memorability: faces and places: an alpha-sparse model for classifying memorability regions”
For more info on PETRAE please visit www.petrae.org
09/06/2013 - 14/06/2013,
Atlanta, Georgia USA
The North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) Annual Conference takes place in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) from June 9 - 14, 2013.
22/06/2013 - 27/06/2013,
New York, New York, USA
Our Data Analytics team will be at 2013 SIGMOD / PODS in New York. The team will present two papers.
Press Releases
QCRI invites applicants for summer internships
08/05/2013
Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) will be kicking off its 2013 summer internship program soon, and invites computer science and computer engineering students to apply. The intensive two-month internship program provides students with the opportunity to work closely with top researchers, and receive practical work experience based on their studies. Applications will be accepted until May 12, 2013.
Presenting a Vision for the Future of Humanitarian Technology
31/03/2013
Dr Patrick Meier, Director of Social Innovation at Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) and the world’s foremost expert on humanitarian technology, explores the rise of digital humanitarian response and how new technologies are reshaping the humanitarian space in an upcoming talk.
QCRI and Boeing to collaborate on Data Analytics Research
24/03/2013
Joint project will seek to identify patterns in large data streams
Research collaboration broadens Boeing engagement in Qatar, strengthens relationship with Qatar Foundation
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