Ingmar Weber is the Research Director for Social Computing at the Qatar Computing Research Institute. His interdisciplinary research uses large amounts of online data from social media and other sources to study human behavior. Particular topics of interest include quantifying international migration using digital methods, tracking digital gender gaps, mapping social inequalities, and precision public health. Before joining the Qatar Computing Research Institute he studied and worked at the University...

Expertise

Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • Qatar Computing Research Institute

    Research Institute, Doha, Qatar
    Research Director for Social Computing

  • Saarland University

    University, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Qatar Computing Research Institute

    Research Institute, Doha, Qatar

  • Yahoo (Spain)

    Other, Barcelona, Spain

  • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

    Other, Lausanne, Switzerland

Research

Coupling GDPR Data Donation and Crowdsourced User Survey: A Case Study on TikTok Addiction

Authors Cai Yang, Sepehr Mousavi, Abhisek Dash, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name Companion Proceedings of the 16th ACM Web Science Conference
1 Journal Article

Online social integration of migrants: Evidence from Twitter

Authors Jisu Kim, Soazic Elise Wang Sonne, Kiran Garimella, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Migration Studies
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6 Journal Article

Gender Pay Gap in Sports on a Fan-Request Celebrity Video Site

Authors Nazanin Sabri, Stephen Reysen, Ingmar Weber
Year 2023
Journal Name Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023
7 Journal Article

Is Facebook’s Advertising Data Accurate Enough for Use in Social Science Research? Insights from a Cross-National Online Survey

Authors André Grow, Daniela Perrotta, Emanuele Del Fava, ...
Year 2022
Journal Name Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society
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9 Journal Article

Recipe1M+: A Dataset for Learning Cross-Modal Embeddings for Cooking Recipes and Food Images

Authors Javier Marin, Aritro Biswas, Ferda Ofli, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
11 Journal Article

Strategic Foresight to Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Achieve Water-related Sustainable Development Goals

Authors Hamid Mehmood, Surya Karthik Mukkavilli, Ingmar Weber, ...
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Year 2020
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14 Report

Segregation and Sentiment: Estimating Refugee Segregation and Its Effects Using Digital Trace Data

Authors Neal Marquez, Kiran Garimella, Ott Toomet, ...
Year 2019
Book Title Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios
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15 Book Chapter

Studying Migrant Assimilation Through Facebook Interests

Authors Antoine Dubois, Emilio Zagheni, Kiran Garimella, ...
Year 2018
Book Title Social Informatics
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17 Book Chapter

Persistent Sharing of Fitness App Status on Twitter

Authors Kunwoo Park, Ingmar Weber, Meeyoung Cha, ...
Year 2016
Journal Name Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing - CSCW '16
19 Journal Article

Quote RTs on Twitter

Authors Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber, Munmun De Choudhury
Year 2016
Journal Name Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science - WebSci '16
20 Journal Article

A Large-Scale Study of Online Shopping Behavior

Authors Soroosh Nalchigar, Ingmar Weber, Parisa Lak, ...
Year 2016
Journal Name Proceedings of the 20th International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium on - IDEAS '16
21 Journal Article

From migration corridors to clusters: The value of Google+ data for migration studies

Authors Johnnatan Messias, Fabricio Benevenuto, Ingmar Weber, ...
Year 2016
Journal Name 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM)
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22 Journal Article

Quantified Self Meets Social Media

Authors Yafei Wang, Ingmar Weber, Prasenjit Mitra
Year 2016
Journal Name Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Digital Health Conference - DH '16
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23 Journal Article

The Mesh of Civilizations in the Global Network of Digital Communication

Authors Bogdan State, Patrick S. Park, Michael W. Macy, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name PLOS ONE
Citations (WoS) 17
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25 Journal Article

Demographic research with non-representative internet data

Authors Emilio Zagheni, Ingmar Weber
Year 2015
Journal Name International Journal of Manpower
26 Journal Article

Algorithms and criteria for diversification of news article comments

Authors Giorgos Giannopoulos, Marios Koniaris, Ingmar Weber, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
27 Journal Article

Bridges into the Unknown

Authors Yelena Mejova, Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Ingmar Weber
Year 2015
Journal Name Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '15
28 Journal Article

You Tweet What You Eat

Authors Sofiane Abbar, Yelena Mejova, Ingmar Weber
Year 2015
Journal Name Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '15
29 Journal Article

Content and Network Dynamics Behind Egyptian Political Polarization on Twitter

Authors Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing - CSCW '15
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30 Journal Article

#FoodPorn

Authors Yelena Mejova, Hamed Haddadi, Anastasios Noulas, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Digital Health 2015 - DH '15
31 Journal Article

"I like ISIS, but I want to watch Chris Nolan's new movie"

Authors Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish, Ingmar Weber
Year 2015
Journal Name Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media - HT '15
33 Journal Article

360-degree Quantified Self

Authors Hamed Haddadi, Ferda Ofli, Yelena Mejova, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name 2015 International Conference on Healthcare Informatics
34 Journal Article

Dietary Habits of an Expat Nation: Case of Qatar

Authors Yelena Mejova, Hamed Haddadi, Sofiane Abbar, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name 2015 International Conference on Healthcare Informatics
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35 Journal Article

Query recommendation in the information domain of children

Authors Sergio Duarte Torres, Djoerd Hiemstra, Ingmar Weber, ...
Year 2014
Journal Name Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
36 Journal Article

Quantifying Politics Using Online Data

Authors Yelena Mejova, Ingmar Weber
Year 2014
Journal Name Social Science Computer Review
37 Journal Article

Co-following on twitter

Authors Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber
Year 2014
Journal Name Proceedings of the 25th ACM conference on Hypertext and social media - HT '14
38 Journal Article

Sociolinguistic analysis of Twitter in multilingual societies

Authors Suin Kim, Ingmar Weber, Li Wei, ...
Year 2014
Journal Name Proceedings of the 25th ACM conference on Hypertext and social media - HT '14
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39 Journal Article

Who watches (and shares) what on youtube? and when?

Authors Adiya Abisheva, Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella, David Garcia, ...
Year 2014
Journal Name Proceedings of the 7th ACM international conference on Web search and data mining - WSDM '14
40 Journal Article

Inferring nationalities of Twitter users and studying inter-national linking

Authors Wenyi Huang, Ingmar Weber, Sarah Vieweg
Year 2014
Journal Name Proceedings of the 25th ACM conference on Hypertext and social media - HT '14
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41 Journal Article

Predicting ideological friends and foes in Twitter conflicts

Authors Zhe Liu, Ingmar Weber
Year 2014
Journal Name Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web - WWW '14 Companion
42 Journal Article

Analysis of Search and Browsing Behavior of Young Users on the Web

Authors Sergio Duarte Torres, Ingmar Weber, Djoerd Hiemstra
Year 2014
Journal Name ACM Transactions on the Web
43 Journal Article

Cross-hierarchical communication in Twitter conflicts

Authors Zhe Liu, Ingmar Weber
Year 2014
Journal Name Proceedings of the 25th ACM conference on Hypertext and social media - HT '14
44 Journal Article

Giving is caring

Authors Yelena Mejova, Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber, ...
Year 2014
Journal Name Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing - CSCW '14
45 Journal Article

Inferring international and internal migration patterns from Twitter data

Authors Emilio Zagheni, Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber, ...
Year 2014
Journal Name Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web - WWW '14 Companion
46 Journal Article

Detecting Friday Night Party Photos: Semantics for Tag Recommendation

Authors Philip J. McParlane, Yelena Mejova, Ingmar Weber
Year 2013
Book Title Advances in Information Retrieval
48 Book Chapter

Bidder optimal assignments for general utilities

Authors Paul Dütting, Monika Henzinger, Ingmar Weber
Year 2013
Journal Name Theoretical Computer Science
49 Journal Article

PLEAD 2013

Authors Ingmar Weber, Ana-Maria Popescu, Marco Pennacchiotti
Year 2013
Journal Name Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management - CIKM '13
50 Journal Article

From machu_picchu to "rafting the urubamba river"

Authors Ilaria Bordino, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Ingmar Weber, ...
Year 2013
Journal Name Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining - WSDM '13
51 Journal Article

Secular vs. Islamist polarization in Egypt on Twitter

Authors Ingmar Weber, Venkata R. Kiran Garimella, Alaa Batayneh
Year 2013
Journal Name Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining - ASONAM '13
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52 Journal Article

From Republicans to Teenagers – Group Membership and Search (GRUMPS)

Authors Ingmar Weber, Djoerd Hiemstra, Pavel Serdyukov
Year 2013
Book Title Advances in Information Retrieval
53 Book Chapter

Political Hashtag Trends

Authors Ingmar Weber, Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella, Asmelash Teka
Year 2013
Book Title Advances in Information Retrieval
54 Book Chapter

Sponsored search, market equilibria, and the Hungarian Method

Authors Paul Dütting, Monika Henzinger, Ingmar Weber
Year 2013
Journal Name Information Processing Letters
55 Journal Article

Studying inter-national mobility through IP geolocation

Authors Bogdan State, Ingmar Weber, Emilio Zagheni
Year 2013
Journal Name Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining - WSDM '13
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56 Journal Article

#Egypt

Authors Ingmar Weber, Kiran Garimella
Year 2013
Journal Name Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining - ASONAM '13
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57 Journal Article

Data-driven political science

Authors Ingmar Weber, Ana-Maria Popescu, Marco Pennacchiotti
Year 2013
Journal Name Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining - WSDM '13
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58 Journal Article

Web Search Queries Can Predict Stock Market Volumes

Authors Ilaria Bordino, Ingmar Weber, Stefano Battiston, ...
Year 2012
Journal Name PLOS ONE
Citations (WoS) 89
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59 Journal Article

Mining web query logs to analyze political issues

Authors Ingmar Weber, Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella, Erik Borra
Year 2012
Journal Name Proceedings of the 3rd Annual ACM Web Science Conference on - WebSci '12
60 Journal Article

Diversifying User Comments on News Articles

Authors Giorgos Giannopoulos, Ingmar Weber, Alejandro Jaimes, ...
Year 2012
Book Title Lecture Notes in Computer Science
61 Book Chapter

Drawing a data-driven portrait of Wikipedia editors

Authors Robert West, Ingmar Weber, Carlos Castillo
Year 2012
Journal Name Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration - WikiSym '12
62 Journal Article

A large-scale sentiment analysis for Yahoo! answers

Authors Onur Kucuktunc, B. Barla Cambazoglu, Ingmar Weber, ...
Year 2012
Journal Name Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining - WSDM '12
63 Journal Article

Query recommendation for children

Authors Sergio Duarte Torres, Djoerd Hiemstra, Ingmar Weber, ...
Year 2012
Journal Name Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management - CIKM '12
64 Journal Article

Social piggybacking

Authors Aristides Gionis, Flavio Junqueira, Vincent Leroy, ...
Year 2012
Journal Name Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Social Network Systems - SNS '12
65 Journal Article

Why do you ask this?

Authors Giovanni Gardelli, Ingmar Weber
Year 2012
Journal Name Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web - WWW '12 Companion
66 Journal Article

You are where you e-mail

Authors Emilio Zagheni, Ingmar Weber
Year 2012
Journal Name Proceedings of the 3rd Annual ACM Web Science Conference on - WebSci '12
67 Journal Article

A data-driven sketch of Wikipedia editors

Authors Robert West, Ingmar Weber, Carlos Castillo
Year 2012
Journal Name Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web - WWW '12 Companion
68 Journal Article

Answers, not links

Authors Ingmar Weber, Antti Ukkonen, Aris Gionis
Year 2012
Journal Name Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining - WSDM '12
69 Journal Article

Maximizing revenue from strategic recommendations under decaying trust

Authors Paul Dütting, Monika Henzinger, Ingmar Weber
Year 2012
Journal Name Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management - CIKM '12
70 Journal Article

PLEAD 2012

Authors Ingmar Weber, Ana-Maria Popescu, Marco Pennacchiotti
Year 2012
Journal Name Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management - CIKM '12
71 Journal Article

Political search trends

Authors Ingmar Weber, Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella, Erik Borra
Year 2012
Journal Name Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval - SIGIR '12
72 Journal Article

Using toolbar data to understand Yahoo!

Authors Giovanni Gardelli, Ingmar Weber
Year 2012
Journal Name Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web - WWW '12 Companion
73 Journal Article

Offline file assignments for online load balancing

Authors Paul Dütting, Monika Henzinger, Ingmar Weber
Year 2011
Journal Name Information Processing Letters
74 Journal Article

What and how children search on the web

Authors Sergio Duarte Torres, Ingmar Weber
Year 2011
Journal Name Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management - CIKM '11
75 Journal Article

A Comprehensive Study of Features and Algorithms for URL-Based Topic Classification

Authors Eda Baykan, Monika Henzinger, Ludmila Marian, ...
Year 2011
Journal Name ACM Transactions on the Web
77 Journal Article

An expressive mechanism for auctions on the web

Authors Paul Dütting, Monika Henzinger, Ingmar Weber
Year 2011
Journal Name Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web - WWW '11
78 Journal Article

Who uses web search for what

Authors Ingmar Weber, Alejandro Jaimes
Year 2011
Journal Name Proceedings of the fourth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining - WSDM '11
79 Journal Article

The stability of the h-index

Authors Monika Henzinger, Jacob Suñol, Ingmar Weber
Year 2010
Journal Name Scientometrics
80 Journal Article

The demographics of web search

Authors Ingmar Weber, Carlos Castillo
Year 2010
Journal Name Proceeding of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval - SIGIR '10
81 Journal Article

Demographic information flows

Authors Ingmar Weber, Alejandro Jaimes
Year 2010
Journal Name Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management - CIKM '10
82 Journal Article

How much is your personal recommendation worth?

Authors Paul Dütting, Monika Henzinger, Ingmar Weber
Year 2010
Journal Name Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web - WWW '10
83 Journal Article

Tagging and navigability

Authors Adish Singla, Ingmar Weber
Year 2010
Journal Name Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web - WWW '10
84 Journal Article

Bidder Optimal Assignments for General Utilities

Authors Paul Dütting, Monika Henzinger, Ingmar Weber
Year 2009
Book Title Internet and Network Economics
85 Book Chapter

Camera brand congruence in the Flickr social graph

Authors Adish Singla, Ingmar Weber
Year 2009
Journal Name Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining - WSDM '09
86 Journal Article

Rethinking email message and people search

Authors Sebastian Michel, Ingmar Weber
Year 2009
Journal Name Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web - WWW '09
87 Journal Article

Rethinking the ESP game

Authors Stephen Robertson, Milan Vojnovic, Ingmar Weber
Year 2009
Journal Name Proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems - CHI EA '09
88 Journal Article

Purely URL-based topic classification

Authors Eda Baykan, Monika Henzinger, Ludmila Marian, ...
Year 2009
Journal Name Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web - WWW '09
89 Journal Article

Output-sensitive autocompletion search

Authors Holger Bast, Christian W. Mortensen, Ingmar Weber
Year 2008
Journal Name Information Retrieval
90 Journal Article

Personalized tag suggestion for flickr

Authors Nikhil Garg, Ingmar Weber
Year 2008
Journal Name Proceeding of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web - WWW '08
91 Journal Article

Semantic Full-Text Search with ESTER: Scalable, Easy, Fast

Authors Holger Bast, Fabian Suchanek, Ingmar Weber
Year 2008
Journal Name 2008 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops
92 Journal Article

Personalized, interactive tag recommendation for flickr

Authors Nikhil Garg, Ingmar Weber
Year 2008
Journal Name Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Recommender systems - RecSys '08
93 Journal Article

ESTER

Authors Holger Bast, Alexandru Chitea, Fabian Suchanek, ...
Year 2007
Journal Name Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval - SIGIR '07
94 Journal Article

Efficient interactive query expansion with complete search

Authors Holger Bast, Debapriyo Majumdar, Ingmar Weber
Year 2007
Journal Name Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management - CIKM '07
95 Journal Article

Analyzing Mentions of Death in COVID-19 Tweets

Authors Divya Mani Adhikari, Muhammad Imran, Umair W. Qazi, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
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98 Journal Article

Gender Gaps in Online Social Connectivity, Promotion and Relocation Reports on LinkedIn

Authors Ghazal Kalhor, Hannah Gardner, Ingmar Weber, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
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99 Journal Article

Partisan US News Media Representations of Syrian Refugees

Authors Keyu Chen, Marzieh Babaeianjelodar, Yiwen Shi, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
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100 Journal Article

Knowledge and Anxiety about COVID-19 in the State of Qatar, and the Middle East and North Africa Region—A Cross Sectional Study

Authors Sathyanarayanan Doraiswamy, Sohaila Cheema, Patrick Maisonneuve, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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106 Journal Article

Pro-Anorexia and Pro-Recovery Photo Sharing: A Tale of Two Warring Tribes

Authors Elad Yom-Tov, Luis Fernandez-Luque, Ingmar Weber, ...
Year 2012
Journal Name Journal of Medical Internet Research
112 Journal Article

Insights from Viewing Ranked Retrieval as Rank Aggregation

Authors H. Bast, I. Weber
Journal Name International Workshop on Challenges in Web Information Retrieval and Integration
114 Journal Article

Suggested Research

Leveraging Facebook's Advertising Platform to Monitor Stocks of Migrants

Authors Emilio Zagheni, Ingmar Weber, Krishna Gummadi
Year 2017
Journal Name Population and Development Review
Citations (WoS) 14
1 Journal Article
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