The University of Arkansas at Little Rock @UALR has selected COSMOS director Dr. Nitin Agarwal as the 2021 Faculty Excellence in Research and Creative Endeavors winner. Congratulations! #facultyexcellence https://ualr.edu/news/2021/04/15/briscoe-agarwal-macfarlane-faculty-excellence/

Congratulations to Seun on successfully defending his master's project. He will start his next career at Intuit, Inc. in Mountain View, CA, as a Software Engineer.

Congratulations to Dr. Tuja Khaund on successfully defending her doctoral dissertation. We wish her all the best for her future career at Walmart in Bentonville as a senior Data Scientist in the graph theory group.

Dr. Esther Mead will be presenting her work "Proposing a Broader Scope of Predictive Features for Modeling Refugee Counts" at the The Web Conference Workshop Data Science for Social Good on April 14. For more information about WWW2021 (@TheWebConf), visit https://www2021.thewebconf.org/

The @IEEEorg Special Issue on Cyber Social Health features an article by guest editor Dr. Nitin Agarwal: "When the Bad is Good and the Good is Bad: Understanding Cyber Social Health Through Online Behavioral Change" - https://cosmos.ualr.edu/dr-nitin-agarwal-edits-ieee-special-issue-on-cyber-social-health/

Congrats to Dr. Samer Al-khateeb and Dr. Nitin Agarwal on the review of their book  ‘Deviance in Social Media and Social Cyber Forensics’ in the prestigious ACM Computing Reviews journal. The authors received praise for their well-written book:
http://www.computingreviews.com/review/Review_review.cfm?review_id=147046&listname=search&CFID=31421232&CFTOKEN=28964853