Postdoctoral Fellow - COSMOS

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University of Arkansas at Little Rock

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Summary of

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The Postdoctoral Fellow position is a full-time provisional position with the COSMOS Research Center (cosmos.ualr.edu) at the University of Arkansas Little Rock, and is funded through a grant or contract. The position renewal is contingent upon continued grant funding and satisfactory job performance. The Postdoctoral Fellow will develop socio-computational models to advance our understanding of cyber campaigns run on social media grounded in the dynamics of various social and communication processes such as group formation, activation, decentralized decision-making, and collective action.

Leveraging cyber forensics and deep web search-based methodologies, the postdoctoral fellow will help extract relevant open-source information in a guided snowball data collection manner. Postdoctoral Fellow will work with the research team in developing predictive models of various socio-technical behaviors on different social media platforms (including, multimedia-rich platforms), usable tools/software to identify key actors and key groups responsible for coordinating cyber campaigns and disseminating propaganda.

This is an on-campus position and will report to:
Dr. Nitin Agarwal (nxagarwal), Maulden-Entergy Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor and Director, COSMOS Research Center, UA-Little Rock. This position is governed by state and federal laws, and agency/institution policy.

Qualifications:

Required Education and/or

Experience:

* The candidate must have a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or a related discipline;

* The candidate should have at least one year research experience in social media mining, computational modeling of social science theories, working with social network analysis tools, and examining cyber campaigns conducted on social media.

Preferred Education and/or

Experience:

* A candidate with extensive research experience in computer programming and data management will be given preference.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

* Assist with social media analysis for the research projects, hypothesis generation, and evaluation for understanding cyber behaviors, data collection, cleaning,…