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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, scientific communication, information visualization (see some student infovis projects in my infovis gallery)

Teaching

Fall 2025

CS 625 - Data Visualization / online asynchronous

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

Active Funding

As of April 2025, all of my active federal grants have been terminated. For more information, see Thank you to NEH, IMLS, DoD Minerva, and NSF.

Recent Funding

My full funding list is available in my CV.

Recent Publications

  1. Lesley Frew, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “Temporally Extending Existing Web Archive Collections for Longitudinal Analysis,” Talk presented at the 6th RESAW Conference, June 2025.    
  2. Kritika Garg, Sawood Alam, Dietrich Ayala, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “Not Here, Go There: Redirection Patterns in the Historical Web,” In Proceedings of ACM Web Science. May 2025.  
  3. David Calano, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, “GitHub Repository Complexity Leads to Diminished Web Archive Availability,” In Proceedings of ACM Web Science. May 2025.    
  4. Kritika Garg, Sawood Alam, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Mark Graham, and Dietrich Ayala, “Redirects Unraveled: From Lost Links to Rickrolls,” Poster presented at the IIPC Web Archiving Conference (WAC), April 2025.  
  5. Mat Kelly, Alex H. Poole, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson, Travis Reid, Christopher Rauch, and Hyung Wook Choi, “What You See No One Saw,” Talk presented at the IIPC Web Archiving Conference (WAC), April 2025.  
  6. Travis Reid, Alex H. Poole, Hyung Wook Choi, Christopher Rauch, Mat Kelly, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “Archiving and Replaying Current Web Advertisements: Challenges and Opportunities,” Technical report arXiv:2502.01525, arXiv, February 2025.    
  7. Leah Prince and Michele C. Weigle, “Examining Engagement with Disinformation Accounts on Instagram Using Web Archives,” Technical report, Old Dominion University, January 2025.  
  8. 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.  
  9. 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.  
  10. 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.  

Awards

  • John R. Broderick Diversity Champion Award, ODU (2023)
  • Shining Star Award, ODU Division of Student Engagement and Enrollment Services (Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2011)
  • Distinguished Teaching Award for Tenured Faculty, ODU College of Sciences (2013-2014)

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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