Tuja Khaund successfully defended her doctoral dissertation “Leveraging Social Network Analysis and Supervised Machine Learning to Study Coordination in Online Information Campaigns” Thursday, April 15, 2021. We wish her all the best for her future career at Walmart Inc. in Bentonville as a senior Data Scientist in the graph theory group.Read More →

Kiran Kumar Bandeli successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “A Framework Toward Computational Narrative Analysis on Blogs/Social Media” Monday, November 25, 2019.  In attendance were committee members Dr. Nitin Agarwal (chair), Dr. Elizabeth Pierce, Dr. John Talburt, and Dr. Ningning Wu as well as members of COSMOS.  During his time at COSMOS, Kiran quickly familiarize himself with blogs.  “Blogs in particular act as virtual spaces where narratives are framed. It is therefore important to study and understand the way information is said by the actors on social media platforms,” Kiran explained. Narratives are organized, long-lasting themes and ideas that persist in discourses. It is challenging toRead More →