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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6687,"parent":0,"template":"","tags":[],"person-role":[27],"class_list":["post-6686","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icegov.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/6686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icegov.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icegov.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icegov.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icegov.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icegov.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6686"},{"taxonomy":"person-role","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icegov.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person-role?post=6686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}