Postdoctoral Fellow: Socio-Computational Cyber Research

Uasys; Little Rock (AR); Presencial; USD 99.000 - 121.000; Jornada completa

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Benefits Eligible

Descripción de la vacante

University of Arkansas at Little Rock is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow for the COSMOS Research Center to develop socio-computational models of cyber campaigns on social media. The role is full-time and on-campus, funded by grants, with renewal contingent on funding and performance.

The candidate will extract open-source data, build predictive models, and create usable tools while mentoring students and collaborating with the research team.

Formación

• The candidate must have a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Information Science, or related discipline.
• 4+ years of research in social media mining, computational modeling, SNA, and cyber campaigns.
• 3+ years of grant writing and management with proven track record.

Responsabilidades

• Prepare, submit, and manage multiple extramural grants.
• Oversee multiple research projects with timelines and reports.
• Lead meetings, set agendas, and capture minutes.
• Develop new research ideas and strategic direction.
• Expand collaborations with the COSMOS Center.
• Conduct social media analysis, data preprocessing, and hypothesis testing.
• Analyze multimedia content across online information environments.
• Document findings via reports, publications, and talks.
• Develop software modules to translate research into tools.
• Mentor graduate students and manage team dynamics.

Conocimientos

Data analysis & modeling

Machine learning & AI

Python

SQL

Pandas

NumPy

scikit-learn

Gensim

BERTopic

TensorFlow

PyTorch

LLMs

Data visualization

Matplotlib

Seaborn

Gephi

NetworkX

GitHub

Jupyter Notebooks

NLP & text mining

Social network analysis

Grant writing

Project management

Educación

Ph.D. in Computer Science or Information Science

Herramientas

GitHub

ClickUp

Jupyter Notebooks

NetworkX

Gephi

Descripción del empleo

University of Arkansas at Little Rock is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow for the COSMOS Research Center to develop socio-computational models of cyber campaigns on social media. The role is full-time and on-campus, funded by grants, with renewal contingent on funding and performance.

The candidate will extract open-source data, build predictive models, and create usable tools while mentoring students and collaborating with the research team.