CHA Meeyoung

Meeyoung Cha is an associate professor at the School of Computing in Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). She studies how socially relevant information spreads in various domains. Her research on misinformation, poverty mapping, fraud detection, and long-tail content has received more than 20,000 citations. She was a Visiting Professor at Facebook's Data Science Team and has won the Young Information Scientist Award in Korea, and Test-of-Time Awards at AAAI ICWSM and ACM IMC. She is also a Chief Investigator at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in Korea.