Meeyoung Cha is a Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) in Germany and a Professor at KAIST in South Korea. Her research focuses on data science and computational social science, particularly in areas such as misinformation, poverty mapping, fraud detection, and human-machine interactions.

Her work has earned widespread recognition, including Best Paper Awards, Test-of-Time Awards, the Hong Jin-Ki Creator Award, the Korean Young Information Scientist Award, and the ACM Distinguished Member status. Currently, she leads the Data Science for Humanity Group at MPI-SP, focusing on developing robust and privacy-preserving methods for analyzing large-scale human behavioral data.