At COSMOS, we are studying various aspects of social media and online behavior – the good, bad and the ugly. From Autism awareness campaigns to ISIS’ and anti-West/anti-NATO propaganda campaigns, at COSMOS, Dr. Agarwal is directing several projects with funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Army Research Office (ARO), U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR), U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), and U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Research at COSMOS has made contributions to computational social network analysis and advanced the studies in social cyber security, cyber campaign coordination, identifying powerful actors and groups, disinformation dissemination across social media, cyber threat monitoring, social-cyber forensics, health informatics, data mining, and privacy. COSMOS has developed publicly available social media mining tools, Blogtrackers and YouTubeTracker, used during the NATO’s military exercises. COSMOS participates in the national Tech Innovation Hub launched by the U.S. Department of State’s Global Engagement Center to defeat foreign based propaganda.

The latest about COSMOS
Oluwaseun Johnson Successfully Defends his Master’s Project
Tuja Khaund Successfully Defends her Doctoral Dissertation
Adeola Adesoba awarded STEAM Scholarship
COSMOS Paper Wins Best Paper Award
COSMOS Paper Published in Text2Story’20 Workshop
COSMOS Team Places in Governor’s Cup and Wins $10,000
Muhammad Nihal Hussain Successfully Defends his Doctoral Dissertation
Baris Kirdemir’s Chapter Published in ‘Computational Conflict Research’
Zachary Stine’s Paper Published in ‘Social Network Analysis and Mining’
Kiran Kumar Bandeli Successfully Defends his Doctoral Dissertation
Billy Spann Successfully Defends his Master’s Thesis
Karen DiCicco Successfully Defended her Master’s Thesis.
US Senator Boozman Gains Insights on COSMOS Research During Campus Visit
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Congratulations Connice and Dayo for winning the first place award at @UALR research expo in the computer & information category!
@UALR @cosmographers We are very proud of Maryam Maleki!
UA Little Rock Grad Investigates Spread of Misinformation Through Social Media
"I used my background in systems engineering to develop mathematical models and statistical analyses to evaluate the spread of misinformation on Twitter.”
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https://ualr.edu/news/2022/05/19/maryam-maleki-graduation/
We are thrilled to receive the @DeptofDefense's DURIP award to enhance our computational infrastructure to combat multimedia intensive cyber influence operations. Read more @UALR https://ualr.edu/news/2022/05/18/cosmos-grant/