Meeyoung Cha
Meeyoung Cha is a Scientific Director of MPI-SP in Bochum, Germany, and holds a joint position as a Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Her interests include data science and computational social science, with a focus on understanding social information and human-machine interactions. Meeyoung’s research on misinformation, poverty mapping, fraud detection, and long-tail content has received wide citations and best paper awards. She is the recipient of the Hong Jin-Ki Creator Award (2024), the Korean Young Information Scientist Award (2019), and two Test-of-Time Awards (ACM IMC 2022, AAAI ICWSM 2020). Prior to joining MPI, Meeyoung was a Chief Investigator at the Institute for Basic Science in Korea and a Visiting Professor at Facebook. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from KAIST in 2008.