Graduate Research Assistant — Socio-Computational Modeling

Uasys; Little Rock (AR); On-site; USD 1,300 - 14,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Arkansas at Little Rock is seeking a Graduate Research Assistant to help develop socio-computational models that illuminate how coordinated cyber campaigns emerge from social and communication dynamics. The role is on-campus and reports to Dr.

Nitin Agarwal, Maulden-Entergy Endowed Chair and Director of COSMOS Research Center. The successful candidate will operationalize models on social media platforms (with emphasis on video-based platforms), perform literature surveys, collect

Qualifications

• The candidate must have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Mathematics, Social Science, or a relevant discipline;
• Regular admission to a UA Little Rock graduate degree program or good standing with the UA Little Rock Graduate School for continuing graduate students;
• Ability to work the required hours (FT-50% - 20 hours per week/PT-25% - 10 hours per week) with regular attendance.

Responsibilities

• Assist with literature survey;
• Assist with hypothesis generation, theoretical evaluation, model development, operationalization, and evaluation;
• Assist with data collection, cleaning, preprocessing, and analyzing findings from the data;
• Assist in preparing reports and publications;
• Coordinate meetings and lead discussions;
• Other tasks as needed.

Skills

Programming experience

Data analysis

Reporting/writing

Social media mining

Social network analysis tools

Python

SQL

Communication

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Information Science / Mathematics / Social Science / relevant discipline

Regular admission to UA Little Rock graduate degree program

Tools

DB systems

SQL

Job description

University of Arkansas at Little Rock is seeking a Graduate Research Assistant to help develop socio-computational models that illuminate how coordinated cyber campaigns emerge from social and communication dynamics. The role is on-campus and reports to Dr.

Nitin Agarwal, Maulden-Entergy Endowed Chair and Director of COSMOS Research Center. The successful candidate will operationalize models on social media platforms (with emphasis on video-based platforms), perform literature surveys, collect