Ingmar Weber
Ingmar Weber researches societal computing, computational social science and digital demography. He earned his Saarland doctorate in 2007 and directed social-computing research at QCRI from 2017 to 2022. His shared research includes a 2017 study of advertising-audience data and health statistics, with explicit limitations. He took a Saarland societal-computing professorship in 2022. AAAI elected him a Fellow in 2026. His work studies social patterns and unconventional data while keeping sampling and measurement limits visible.
- Now at
- Saarland University
- Works
- 337
- Citations
- 12,804
- h-index
- 55
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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2007–2017
Training and social-computing research
Weber earned a Saarland computer-science doctorate in 2007. He was a principal scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute from 2016 to 2017 and directed social-computing research from 2017 to 2022.
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2017
Advertising data as research evidence
Weber coauthored a 2017 paper with Matheus Araujo, Yelena Mejova and Fabricio Benevenuto on Facebook advertising audiences and lifestyle-disease surveillance. The authors study relationships between aggregated audience interests and health statistics. The paper discusses its limitations.
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2022
A Saarland chair
Weber became a Saarland societal-computing professor and Humboldt AI professor in 2022. He studies social phenomena with unconventional data and works with partners on societal challenges.
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2026
AAAI recognition
AAAI elected Weber a Fellow in 2026. His research and professional activities connect computing with social science, web data and demography.
Sources and credits
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