COSMOS - Graduate Research Assistant; Researcher

Position: COSMOS - Graduate Research Assistant (Researcher)
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Type of Position:

Graduate Assistant

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No

Job Type:

Academic Term (Fixed Term)

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Sponsorship Available:

No

Institution Name:

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is a metropolitan research university that provides an accessible, quality education through flexible learning and unparalleled internship opportunities. At UA Little Rock, we prepare our more than 8,900 students to be innovators and responsible leaders in their fields. Committed to its metropolitan research university mission, UA Little Rock is a driving force in Little Rock's thriving cultural community and a major component of the city and state's growing profile as a regional leader in research, technology transfer, economic development, and job creation.

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COSMOS

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Summary of

Job Duties:

The Graduate Research Assistant will help develop socio-computational models to advance our understanding of coordinated cyber campaigns grounded in the dynamics of various social and communication processes such as group formation, activation, decentralized decision-making, and collective action. The Graduate Research Assistant will help operationalize the developed socio-computational models on a variety of social media platforms (particularly, video-based platforms).

This is an on-campus position. Position reports 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 bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Mathematics, Social Science, or a relevant discipline;

* Regular admission to a UA Little Rock graduate degree program or good standing with the UA Little Rock Graduate School for continuing graduate students;

* Ability to work the required hours (FT-50% - 20 hours per week/PT-25% - 10 hours per week) with regular attendance.

Preferred Education and/or

Experience:

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

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

* Assist with literature survey;

* Assist with hypothesis generation, theoretical evaluation, model development, operationalization, and evaluation;

* Assist with data collection, cleaning, preprocessing, and analyzing findings from the data;

* Assist in preparing reports and publications;

* Coordinate meetings and lead discussions;

* Other tasks as needed.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

* Experience with data analysis - Microsoft Suite will be considered but preference is given to candidates with programming experience;

* Experience in reporting and technical writing;

* Experience in research, including previous publications, reviewing scholarly articles, etc.;

* Experience in social media mining, computational modeling of social science…