Cha Meeyoung
Cha Meeyoung | |
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Born | July 28, 1979 |
Nationality | South Korean |
Other names | Mia |
Alma mater | KAIST |
Known for | Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Social computing, complex networks, data science, social networking services |
Institutions | Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, KAIST, SK Telecom, Korea Internet Self-Governance Organization, Facebook, Institute for Basic Science |
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Doctoral advisors | Moon Sue |
Other academic advisors | Kim Taewhan |
Korean name | |
Hangul | |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Cha Miyeong |
McCune–Reischauer | Ch'a Miyŏng |
Website | PRC for Mathematical and Computational Sciences - Data Science Group |
Cha Meeyoung, sometimes known as Mia, is an associate professor at KAIST in the School of Computing and a chief investigator in the Pioneer Research Center for Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the Institute for Basic Science. Her research focuses on network and data science with an emphasis on modeling, analyzing complex information propagation processes, machine learning-based computational social science, and deep learning. She has served on the editorial boards of the journals PeerJ and ACM Transactions on Social Computing.
Education
The entirety of Meeyoung's higher education has taken place at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, South Korea. Majoring in computer science, she graduated magna cum laude for her B.S. The adviser for her M.S. was Kim Taewhan, and her Ph.D. was supervised by Sue Moon.
Career
In 2008, Meeyoung worked as a postdoc in Max Planck Institute for Software Systems under adviser Krishna Gummadi. Leaving Max Planck, she returned to her alma mater and became an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Culture Technology later becoming an associate professor joint faculty member in the School of Computing. Outside of KAIST, she worked as a scientific and technical consultant for both SK Telecom and the Korea Internet Self-Governance Organization in 2010 and 2014, respectively.
In 2015, Meeyoung went to Menlo Park to work as a visiting professor with Facebook's Data Science Team hosted by Lada Adamic. In 2019, she and Oum Sang-il were the founding chief investigators of the Pioneer Research Center for Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS). This and the Pioneer Research Center for Biomolecular and Cellular Structure are the first of two such centers at IBS. Headed by Meeyoung, the Data Science Group researches fake news, perception biases in relation to AI, deep learning of heterogeneous data for modeling human behavior, and prediction efforts through language processing and image analysis. Seeing the infodemic on COVID-19 information starting in China and spreading to Korea and the US, the Data Science Group and researchers from Ewha Womans University, started the multilingual Facts Before Rumors campaign to separate common claims seen online.
Awards and honors
- 2022: Commendation, 55th Science Day, Ministry of Science and ICT
- 2020: Test of Time Award, International Conference on Web and Social Media
- 2019: Young Information Scientist Award
- 2016: Lifetime member, Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (ko)
- 2012: Best Paper, International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
- 2009: Best Data Workshop Paper, 3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
- 2007: Best Paper, ACM Internet Measurement Conference
Editorial boards
- 2016–present PeerJ
- 2016–present ACM Transactions on Social Computing
Selected publications
- Cha, Meeyoung; Haddadi, Hamed; Benevenuto, Fabr´ıcio; Gummadi, Krishna P. (2010). "Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy". Proceedings of the Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. pp. 10–17. OCLC 780600252. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
- Cha, Meeoung; Kwak, Haewoon; Rodriguez, Rodriguez; Ahn, Yong-Yeol; Moon, Sue (24 October 2007). "I Tube, You Tube, Everybody Tubes: Analyzing the World's Largest User Generated Content Video System" (PDF). Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement. 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement.
- Viswanath, Bimal; Mislove, Alan; Cha, Meeyoung; Gummadi, Krishna P. "On the Evolution of User Interaction in Facebook" (PDF). Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Online social networks. 2nd ACM workshop on Online social networks. ACM. pp. 37–42. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2017.
- Benevenuto, Fabrício; Rodrigues, Tiago; Cha, Meeyoung; Almeida, Virgílio (4 November 2009). "Characterizing User Behavior in Online Social Networks" (PDF). Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement. 9th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement. ACM. pp. 49–62. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
- KAIST faculty
- 1979 births
- Living people
- KAIST alumni
- Institute for Basic Science
- 21st-century South Korean mathematicians
- South Korean women computer scientists
- South Korean computer scientists
- 21st-century South Korean women scientists
- 21st-century South Korean scientists
- 21st-century women mathematicians
- South Korean women mathematicians