Dr. Michele C. Weigle

Dr. Michele C. Weigle

Professor of Computer Science

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About Me

I am a Professor of Computer Science at Old Dominion University. I serve as the Assistant Chair for Graduate Programs and Research and the Graduate Program Director (GPD) for the PhD Program in the Department of Computer Science. See our website for information on our graduate programs (MS, PhD). If you need to contact a CS GPD, please use csgpd@odu.edu.

For an overview of my research over the past few years, see On the importance of web archiving, an article I wrote for SSRC Parameters in 2018. I recently gave an interview covering my background, our research group, and challenges facing web archive collections for the National Library of Medicine’s Circulating Now blog. I’m currently featured on the ODU Faculty Women in STEM page, where you can read a bit more about my background and experiences as a woman in computer science. For more information on my education and work experience, see my bio.

Research Interests: web science, social media, web archiving, information visualization (see some student infovis projects in my infovis gallery)

Teaching

Spring 2025

CS 725/825 - Information Visualization & Data Analytics / MW 3-4:15 and online synchronous

Research

I’m a member of the ODU Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Research Group.

WS-DL Webpage WS-DL Blog WS-DL GitHub WS-DL Twitter

Recent Publications

  1. Leah Prince and Michele C. Weigle, “Examining Engagement with Disinformation Accounts on Instagram Using Web Archives,” Technical report, Old Dominion University, January 2025.  
  2. Jhon G. Botello, Lesley Frew, Jose J. Padilla, and Michele C. Weigle, “Exploring Large Language Models for Analyzing Changes in Web Archive Content: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation Approach,” In Proceedings of the 9th Computational Archival Science (CAS) Workshop. December 2024.  
  3. Lesley Frew, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “Retrogressive Document Manipulation of US Federal Environmental Websites,” In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). October 2024.  
  4. Corren McCoy, Ross Gore, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “A Relevance Model for Threat-Centric Ranking of Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities,” Cybersecurity & Information Systems Information Analysis Center (CSIAC) Journal, October 2024.  
  5. Christopher Rauch, Alex H. Poole, Travis Reid, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Faryaneh Poursardar, and Mat Kelly, “Archiving Digital Marketing: Examining Preservation of Dynamic Content on the Web Through the Lens of Online Advertisements,” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES). September 2024.  
  6. Kritika Garg, Sawood Alam, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “Some URLs Are Immortal, Most Are Ephemeral,” Poster presented at the International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES), September 2024.  
  7. Vicky Rampin, Talya Cooper, Martin Klein, David Wilkinson, Lyudmila Balakireva, Emily Escamilla, David Calano, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “Using the CoSAI ecosystem to archive scholarly code with docs and discussions,” Demo presented at the International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES), September 2024.  
  8. Christopher Rauch, Alex H. Poole, Travis Reid, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, and Mat Kelly, “Document Personalization Using Advertising Data,” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Document Academy (DOCAM), September 2024.  
  9. Christopher Rauch, Alex H. Poole, Travis Reid, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle, Faryaneh Poursardar, and Mat Kelly, “Contextual Archiving of Web Page Advertisements Using Persona-Based Tools,” Lightning talk presented at the SAA Research Forum, August 2024.  
  10. Michele C. Weigle, José Balsa-Barreiro, Nitesh V. Chawla, Tamas Dávid-Barrett, Maria Melchior, Virginia Pallante, Abeed Sarker, and Jason Gilliland, “Characterizing Social Environments in the Physical and Virtual Worlds Using Digital Data,” In Digital Ethology: Human Behavior in Geospatial Context. (Tomáš Paus and Hye-Chung Kum, Eds.), The MIT Press, 2024.  

Active Funding

My full funding list is available in my CV.

Service

Bio

Dr. Michele C. Weigle is a Professor of Computer Science at Old Dominion University. Her research interests include web science, social media, web archiving, and information visualization. She has published over 150 articles in peer-reviewed conferences and journals and has served as PI or Co-PI on external research grants totaling over $6.5M from a wide range of funders, including the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) and the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL). Dr. Weigle received her PhD in computer science from the University of North Carolina in 2003.

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