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
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
Anal Kanti Roy 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
Richard Young Successfully Defended his MSIS Project.
Stine accepted into HASTAC Scholars Program
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COSMOS paper "YouTube Video Categorization Using Moviebarcode" won HUSO 2020 Best Paper Award. The research focuses on filtering and grouping videos which helps social computing researchers to analyze YouTube videos easily and efficiently. https://cosmos.ualr.edu/cosmos-paper-wins-best-paper-award/
Read the Q&A with COSMOS Director Dr. Nitin Agarwal, courtesy of Arkansas Money & Politics (@amppob):
https://armoneyandpolitics.com/social-media-warrior-qa-with-dr-nitin-agarwal-ua-little-rock/
Check out the DEVIANCE 2020 conference conducted by @cosmographers at the IEEE BigData 2020 conference. http://cosmos.ualr.edu/workshops/deviance/2020/ https://twitter.com/SamerAl_khateeb/status/1337134094166134784
In case any of our followers missed Zach Stine's presentation of "Comparative Religion, Topic Models, and Conceptualization: Towards the Characterization of Structural Relationships between Online Religious Discourse", you can watch it anytime on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Xhh2QeHKr9c