Cha Meeyoung

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Cha Meeyoung
Born (1979-07-28) July 28, 1979 (age 44)
Daejeon, South Korea
NationalitySouth Korean
Other namesMia
Alma materKAIST
Known forMeasuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy
Scientific career
FieldsSocial computing, complex networks, data science, social networking services
InstitutionsMax Planck Institute for Software Systems, KAIST, SK Telecom, Korea Internet Self-Governance Organization, Facebook, Institute for Basic Science, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
Theses
Doctoral advisorsMoon Sue
Other academic advisorsKim Taewhan
Korean name
Hangul
차미영
Hanja
Revised RomanizationCha Miyeong
McCune–ReischauerCh'a Miyŏng
WebsitePRC for Mathematical and Computational Sciences - Data Science Group

Cha Meeyoung (Korean: 차미영; born July 28, 1979), 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. In June 2024, she will become the scientific director of the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy. She has served on the editorial boards of the journals PeerJ and ACM Transactions on Social Computing.

Early life and education

Mia was born in Daejeon, South Korea. She had a "boring" childhood in Chuncheon City, Gangwon Province where she often spent time alone in her thoughts.[1] Growing up, she often would play with the novelist O Jeonghui's daughter as they were the same age and lived in the same apartment complex.[2]

She went to Bongeui Middle School (ko)[3] and then was one of the only female students attending Kangwon Science High School at that time.[2] The entirety of Meeyoung's higher education has taken place at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, South Korea. She initially desired to major in astroypyhsics, as she grew up loving stars and was influenced by her physicist father, but KAIST had no degree in astroypyhsics.[4] Majoring in computer science, she graduated magna cum laude for her B.S. Within the Graduate School for Culture Technology at KAIST,[5] the adviser for her M.S. was Kim Taewhan,[6] and her Ph.D. was supervised by Sue Moon.[7]

Career

In 2008, Meeyoung worked as a postdoc in Max Planck Institute for Software Systems[8] under adviser Krishna Gummadi.[9] Leaving Max Planck, she returned to her alma mater and became an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Culture Technology[10] later becoming an associate professor joint faculty member in the School of Computing.[11] 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[12] 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.[13][14][15] 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.[16] 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.[17][18][19][20]

She has been named BACUDA science collaborator of the World Customs Organization,[21] is a member of the Seoul Forum for International Affairs, and a commissioner for the Presidential Council on Intellectual Property, Open Data Mediation Committee, National Tax Service, Korea Customs Service, and Korea Copyright Commission.[22][23][24]

In June 2024, she will relocate to the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy in Germany to become a scientific director at the Max Planck Society. She will become the first South Korea director and second Asian female scientist to hold such a position at Max Planck.[25][26]

Awards and honors

  • 2022: Test of Time Award, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGCOMM[27][28]
  • 2022: Commendation, 55th Science Day, Ministry of Science and ICT[29][30]
  • 2020: Test of Time Award, International Conference on Web and Social Media[31][32]
  • 2019: Young Information Scientist Award, Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (ko)[33][34]
  • 2016: Lifetime member, Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers
  • 2012: Best Paper, International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media[35][36][37]
  • 2009: Best Data Workshop Paper, 3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media[38]
  • 2007: Best Paper, ACM Internet Measurement Conference[39]

Editorial boards

Selected publications

  1. 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. Archived from the original on 4 February 2020. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

References

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  2. ^ a b 김윤덕 (26 February 2024). "'노벨상 산실' 뚫은 토종 과학자… "망한다는 연구도 밀어붙인 맷집 통했죠" [김윤덕이 만난 사람]". The Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). Retrieved 27 February 2024.
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  10. ^ Kim, Hoh; Park, Jaram; Cha, Meeyoung; Jeong, Jaeseung (7 May 2015). "The Effect of Bad News and CEO Apology of Corporate on User Responses in Social Media: About the Authors". PLOS One. 10 (5). Public Library of Science: e0126358. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0126358. PMC 4423858. PMID 25951231. AFFILIATION Graduate School of Culture Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 305–701, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
  11. ^ "Faculty Meeyoung Cha". School of Computing. KAIST. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  12. ^ "[세미나] Explaining the Punishment Gap of AI and Robots - 차미영 교수 (KAIST)". Graduate School of Information Security. KAIST. 15 October 2019. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  13. ^ 윤, 희은 (2 December 2018). "IBS, '젊은 연구자 주축' 연구단 출범". The Korea Economic Daily (in Korean). Retrieved 20 January 2020.
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  17. ^ ""Fact before rumors" campaign just began by the IBS Data Science Group". Institute for Basic Science. 26 March 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  18. ^ Cha Meeyoung (24 March 2020). "코로나바이러스와 인포데믹". Institute for Basic Science (in Korean). Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  19. ^ ""동남아·남미 코로나 가짜뉴스 막고 '진짜뉴스' 전하자" 국내 과학자 팔 걷어". Donga Science (in Korean). 25 March 2020. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  20. ^ "[차미영의 데이터로 본 세상] '인포데믹'의 시대". The Korea Economic Daily (in Korean). 25 March 2020. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  21. ^ "WCO BACUDA experts develop and share a neural network model to assist Customs to detect potential fraudulent transactions". World Customs Organization. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  22. ^ "Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Age: Implications for the Future of Society - 제6회 한국·독일한림원 공동심포지엄" (PDF). German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Kast-Leopoldina Bilateral Symposium. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  23. ^ "Speakers". Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy. Max Planck Society. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  24. ^ 이준기 (29 January 2024). "[이준기의 D사이언스] AI 활용 가짜뉴스 탐지 연구 주목… 구글 등 글로벌 기업에 큰 영향력". 디지털타임스 (in Korean). Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  25. ^ 황규락 (10 January 2024). "'노벨상 산실' 獨 막스플랑크 첫 한국인 단장: 차미영 KAIST 교수, 6월에 부임 '인류 데이터 과학' 연구 이끌 예정". The Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). Retrieved 10 January 2024.
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  27. ^ "IMC Test of Time Award". SIGCOMM. Association for Computing Machinery. 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  28. ^ "Presentation: Generative AI and the Challenges for Copyright Protection". Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. Max Planck Society. 2023. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  29. ^ 전체관리자 (21 April 2022). "IBS 과기정통부 장관표창 수상자". Institute for Basic Science (in Korean). Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  30. ^ 홍보실 (26 April 2022). "제55회 과학의날 기념 유공자 선정". KAIST (in Korean). Retrieved 9 January 2024.
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  33. ^ 김, 태우 (23 December 2019). "차미영 기초과학연구원 CI, '제4회 젊은 정보과학자상' 수상". 더리포트 (in Korean). Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  34. ^ "차미영 CI, '제4회 젊은정보과학자상' 수상: 소셜컴퓨팅 분야 학계 선도하는 젊은 여성과학자로 인정". Institute for Basic Science (in Korean). 23 December 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  35. ^ "Publications". Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Max Planck Society. 2012. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
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  38. ^ "ICWSM 2009 Data Challenge". 3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (in Korean). 2009. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  39. ^ "Meeyoung Cha Associate Processor". Graduate School of Culture Technology. KAIST. Archived from the original on 5 April 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  40. ^ "Academic Editor Meeyoung Cha". PeerJ (in Korean). PeerJ, Inc. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  41. ^ 전체관리자 (23 December 2019). "차미영 CI, '제4회 젊은정보과학자상' 수상: 소셜컴퓨팅 분야 학계 선도하는 젊은 여성과학자로 인정". Institute for Basic Science (in Korean). Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  42. ^ "Editorial Board". ACM Transactions on Social Computing. ACM Journals. Retrieved 20 January 2020.

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