COSMOS - Extra Help Assistant III

at University of Arkansas - Fayetteville in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Job Description

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Closing Date:Type of Position:Researchers

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Sponsorship Available:NoInstitution 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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For general application assistance or if you have questions about a job posting, please contact Human Resources at 501-916-3180.Department:COSMOS

Department's Website:https://cosmos.ualr.edu/Summary of Job Duties:The Extra Help Assistant will help 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. The Extra Help Assistant will aid with cyber forensics and deep web search-based methodologies, to assist with extracting relevant open-source information in a guided snowball data collection manner. The Extra Help Assistant will work with the research team to support development of predictive models of deviant socio-technical behaviors on a various social media platform (particularly, video-based platforms) to identify key actors and key groups responsible for coordinating cyber campaigns and disseminating propaganda. This is an on-campus position. Position reports to Dr. Nitin Agarwal (nxagarwal@ualr.edu), 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, Systems Engineering or a related discipline;

Preferred Education and/or Experience:

The candidate should have extensive 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.

A candidate with experience in operational research, optimization tools, information theory, multiplex networks analysis, computer programming, and data management will be given preference.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Assist with social media analysis for the research projects, such as hypothesis generation and evaluation for understanding cyber behaviors, data collection, cleaning, preprocessing, analyzing findings from the data, for preparation with drafting research findings for conferences, and scientific venues;

Write software modules transitioning research to tool;

Assist with online information environment analysis;

Provide inputs for conduction of training stakeholders... For full info follow application link.

The University of Arkansas is an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution. The university welcomes applications without regard to age, race, gender (including pregnancy), national origin, disability, religion, marital or parental status, protected veteran status, military service, genetic information, sexual orientation or gender identity. Persons must have proof of legal authority to work in the United States on the first day of employment. All applicant information is subject to public disclosure under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act.