Ingmar Weber is the Research Director for Social Computing at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) where he leads a team of researchers and engineers working on projects of both local and global societal relevance.

He obtained his BA and MA in mathematics from Cambridge University before pursuing a PhD in computer science at the Max Planck for Computer Science in Saarbrücken. He subsequently held posts at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland and Yahoo Research Barcelona in Spain before joining QCRI in 2012.

Throughout his academic career he has collaborated with over 100 experts with a wide range of expertise, publishing over 140 peer-reviewed articles on topics ranging from efficient data structures, to game theory, to political polarization. Ingmar is an ACM, AAAI and IEEE senior member. He currently serves as an ACM Distinguished Speaker. In his interdisciplinary research, he analyses large amounts of data to study population behaviour at scale. Topics of current interest include Data for Development in general and in particular (i) studying digital gender gaps around the globe, and (ii) monitoring international migration.

He is a pioneer in the innovative use of advertising data from Facebook, LinkedIn and other platforms to study these and other topics.