March 2025
Industry Titans Bobby Martin and Annemarie Dillard Jazic Visit COSMOS
As part of the talk series on Conversation with the Titans of Industry, world-renowned Arkansas executive Bobby Martin and Annemarie Dillard Jazic visited UA Little Rock’s campus to discuss their experiences in technology in business. The event was hosted at UA Little Rock’s Engineering and Information Technology (EIT) building on February 27th, with guests and invited speakers touring the facilities afterward. The Titans of Industry series focuses on hosting influential business leaders to give students and faculty practical business knowledge.
Hot Off the Press: Developing Agent-Based Models for Simulating Flash Mobs
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 conducted by Prof. Agarwal and his colleagues at Creighton University, Prof. Samer Al-khateeb and Jack Burright. In the article titled, “Evaluating collective action theory-based model to simulate mobs”, the authors focused on the combination of social network dynamics with behavioral analysis.
Research Spotlight: Information Campaigns and Socio-political Protests
In this month’s research spotlight, we highlight recent research from COSMOS that focuses on information campaigns and socio-political protests. These studies were published and presented recently at the 2025 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2025), which took place from January 7 to 10, 2025, in Hilton Waikoloa Village, Big Island, Hawaii. Specifically, the studies we spotlight here are titled, “Analyzing TikTok’s Role in Mobilizing Dynamics for Information Campaigns during Taiwan’s 2024 Elections,” and “The Amplifiers of Dissent: Examining Influence of Key Users and Content Modality on Collective Actions.”
Cosmographer Corner: Dr. Maryam Maleki, Professor of Systems Engineering, California State University-Dominguez Hills
In this edition of Cosmographer Corner, we highlight the work of former University of Arkansas at Little Rock graduate and cosmographer Dr. Maryam Maleki. We are extremely proud of Dr. Maleki’s accomplishments!
From Graduation to Beyond: Graduation Stories
This edition of the newsletter shares the academic journey of one of our recent graduates, Imran Mohammed, and what the future holds for him. Imran graduated with a master’s in computer science and worked as a graduate research assistant at the COSMOS Research Center.