Dr. Ingmar Weber is currently the Research Director for Social Computing at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI). Recently, he has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in AI, Germany’s most valuable research award, and he’ll be joining Saarland University in September 2022. His interdisciplinary research looks at what non-traditional data sources can tell us about the offline world and society at large. Working closely with sociologists and demographers he has pioneered the use of online advertising data for complementing official statistics on international migration, digital gender gaps, and poverty. His work is regularly featured in UN reports, and analyses performed by his team have been used to improve operations by UN agencies and NGOs ranging from Colombia to the Philippines. Prior to joining QCRI, Ingmar was a researcher at Yahoo Research Barcelona. As an undergraduate, he studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge before pursuing a Ph.D. at the Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science.