Cosmographers Present on AI Bias and Content Traps at HUSO 2025
The International Conference on Human and Social Analytics (HUSO) is an annual event dedicated to advancing research at the intersection of human behavior, social dynamics, and computational analytics. Bringing together scholars and professionals from diverse disciplines, the conference serves as a platform for discussing innovations in sentiment analysis, human-computer interaction, social computing, and digital heritage analytics. From March 9 to 13, 2025, the 11th HUSO conference was held at Lisbon, Portugal. This year COSMOS presented the paper “Resilience and Node Impact Assessment in YouTube Commenter Networks Leveraging Focal Structure Analysis” at the conference, which won the conference’s Best Paper award.
Hot Off the Press: Fusing Multisource Data to Improve AI Models
Springer’s Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), a prestigious journal, publishes groundbreaking research at the intersection of computational and information sciences discipline and the social science discipline. Recently, SNAM published one of our studies titled, “KG-CFSA: A Comprehensive Approach for Analyzing Multi-source Heterogeneous Social Network Knowledge Graph,” the authors develop methods to fuse multisource heterogeneous data through knowledge graphs and contextual focal structure analysis for improving the state of the AI models that feed on such open datasets. Their paper names this method as KG-CFSA.
Research Spotlight: Online Toxicity Diffusion
In this month’s research spotlight, we highlight recent research from COSMOS that focuses on online toxicity diffusion, ways to computationally model its spread, and mitigation methods. These studies were published and presented recently at the 2024 Complex Networks & Their Applications (CNA) conference, which took place from December 10 to 12, 2024, in Istanbul, Turkey. Specifically, the studies we spotlight here are titled, “Combating Toxicity: A Systematic Approach to Model Quarantine Intervention for Varied Toxicity Levels,” and “Modeling Toxicity Propagation on Reddit using Epidemiology.”
Cosmographer Corner: Dr. Kim Tran, Senior Manager at Murphy USA
In this edition of Cosmographer Corner, we highlight the work of former University of Arkansas at Little Rock graduate and cosmographer Dr. Kim Tran. We are extremely proud of Dr. Tran’s accomplishments!
Cosmographers Attend 51st NSBE 2025
The 51st National Convention of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) proved to be an outstanding gathering, uniting aspiring engineers, experienced professionals, and industry leaders. Hosted in Chicago, Illinois, from March 5 to 9, 2024, the event served as a hub for knowledge sharing, networking, and career development for the attending cosmographers.
Unmasking Digital Deception: Join the Deviant Dynamics in Digital Spaces 2025 Workshop
The Deviant Dynamics in Digital Spaces 2025 workshop (Deviance 2025) is an opportunity to engage with leading experts tackling the most pressing challenges in online safety and security. Hosted at ASONAM 2025 in Niagara Falls, Canada, during August 25-28, 2025, the workshop will bring researchers, policymakers, and industry leaders together to explore emerging challenges and opportunities for studying digital deviance and share the latest research in detection and mitigation.