Cha Meeyoung

Cha Meeyoung
Born	(1979-07-28) July 28, 1979 (age 45) Daejeon, South Korea
Nationality	South Korean
Other names	Mia
Alma mater	KAIST
Known for	Facts before Rumors research, 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, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
Theses	Resource-Constrained Low-Power Bus Encoding with Crosstalk Delay  (2004) Network Support for Emerging Multimedia Streaming Services (2008)
Doctoral advisors	Moon Sue (문수복)[1]
Other academic advisors	Kim Taewhan
Korean name
Hangul	차미영
Hanja	車美英
Revised Romanization	Cha Miyeong
McCune–Reischauer	Ch'a Miyŏng
Website	PRC 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.