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CASOS News 2023

November 2023

• CASOS member Isabel Murdock presented “An Agent-Based Model of Reddit Interactions and Moderation,” at IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2023) where she received the Best Paper Award.  

• Christine Lepird won the best graduate student poster for her poster "Agenda-Driven Partisan Algorithms Are Creating "Local" News: Is Your Community Being Targeted?" at the 2023 Tech Ethics Symposium at Duquesne University. Her poster showed how 'pink slime' sites spend their ad money in each state in a way that was related to the margin of the vote spread in the 2020 presidential election; how the ad spend resulted in authentic spread to neighborhood Facebook groups; and how the sites were shared by social media users on political lines rather than geographic ones.

October 2023

• CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed for the Financial Times article, "Israel conflict lets loose a deluge of falsehoods on social media" regarding disinformation surrouding the conflict.

September 2023

• CASOS Graduate student Evan Williams receives the 2023 Best student paper award at the SBP-BRiMS Conference for his paper, "Agent-based moral interaction simulations in imbalanced polarized settings."
• CASOS graduate students Daniele Bellutta, Catherine King, Matthew Hicks, Samantha Phillips, Wenjia Hu, Charity Jacobs and Jeongkin Shin presented papers at the 2023 IDeaS and SBP-BRiMS conferences held at CMU September 20-22, 2023.

August 2023

• CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley participates in the Nobel Symposium on Social Networks in Lund, Sweden August 22-24, 2023. 

July 2023

• CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley gives keynote at the 2023 NetSci Conference in Vienna July 13th. The conference held by the Network Science Society, aims to bring together leading researchers and practitioners working in the emerging area of network science.
• CASOS Faculty, graduate students and postdocs present at the 2023 Sunbelt Conference June 27th-July 1st.

June 2023

• Summer Institute kicks off on June 5th! There is still time to register.

May 2023

• CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed for the Quanta Magazine article "Chatbots Don't Know What Stuff Isn't". Read the full article here.

• CASOS Graduate student Charity Jacobs was selected for the prestigious General Omar N. Bradley Research Fellowship in Mathematics for FY 2022.
• CASOS Alumni Jeremy Straugher has been selected for promotion to Lieutenant Colonel. Congratulations to Jeremy!

• CASOS graduate student Catherine King published a new paper entitled, "Gender dynamics on Twitter during the 2020 U.S. Democratic presidential primary." Check out the paper in Social Network Analysis and Mining here.
• Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed by Rolling Stone in the article, "Twitter Bots Are Promising Cheap Guns to Anyone Using the N-Word". Read the article here.

• CASOS graduate student Daniele Bellutta has a new publication in the Journal of Big Data, "Investigating coordinated account creation using burst detection and network analysis". Check out the publication here.
• Director Kathleen M. Carley was interviewed for a new article on GRID. Check out her comments about Twitter API access for researchers here.

• CASOS graduate student Lynnette Ng has a new publications in journal Applied Network Science, "A combined synchronization index for evaluating collective action social media". Check out the publication here.
• CASOS director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed and quoted in the french publication Science & Medicine in the January 2023 issue in the article entitled, "Les Nouvelles Règles de Twitter Inquiètent la Recherche" ("New Twitter Rules Worry Researchers"). Access the acticle here.
• Lynnette Ng published a new paper entitled, "A combined synchronization index for evaluating collective action social media." Check out the paper in Applied Network Science here.

CASOS News 2022

• CASOS graduate students Samantha Phillips and Tom Magelinski were chosen to present at the 2022 Sunbelt XLII Social Networks Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA).
• CASOS graduate students Catherine King and Samantha Phillips are awarded GuSH funds for their research study on polarization.
• CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed by Chris Stewart from Scripps Media about extremists groups using video games to recruit new followers. Read the full article here.
• Congratulations to CASOS graduate students JD Moffitt and Janice Blane! The Army ORSA branch recently selected Janice and J.D. for Key Nominative Billets within their career field. This highly competitive selection identified them as top technical leaders within the Army. Read more here...
• CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed by the folks at CNN's Early Start regarding bot behavior on Twitter and the different characteristics of bots. See full interview here.
• CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed by the technology reporter Benjamin Powers from Grid regarding the number of bots on Twitter. Read the full article here.
• CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed by the Washington Post for the Article "Musk's question about bots is nothing new for Twitter". Read about her comments and some of our research regarding bots on Twitter by reading the full article here.
• CASOS Graduate student Luke Osterritter joined the National Cryptologic Foundation to discuss dismantling disinformation. Watch the video here.
• CASOS graduate students Samantha Phillips and Tom Magelinski were chosen to present at the 2022 Sunbelt XLII Social Networks Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA).
• CASOS graduate students Catherine King and Samantha Phillips are awarded GuSH funds for their research study on polarization.
• CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed by Chris Stewart from Scripps Media about extremists groups using video games to recruit new followers. Read the full article here.
• Congratulations to CASOS graduate students J.D. Moffitt and Janice Blane! The Army ORSA branch recently selected Janice and J.D. for Key Nominative Billets within their career field. This highly competitive selection identified them as top technical leaders within the Army. This process builds upon their career fields' effort to further optimize talent management principles by selecting the best-qualified officers based on knowledge, skills, attributes, and experiences for assignment to key LTC positions across the Army enterprise. This is a significant achievement for them, and well deserved.
• CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed by the folks at CNN's Early Start regarding bot behavior on Twitter and the different the characteristics of bots. See full interview here.
• CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed by the technology reporter Benjamin Powers from Grid regarding the number of bots on Twitter. Read the full article here.
• CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed by the Washington Post for the Article "Musk's question about bots is nothing new for Twitter". Read about her comments and some of our research regarding bots on Twitter by reading the full article here.
• CASOS Graduate student Luke Osterritter joined the National Cryptologic Foundation to discuss dismantling disinformation. Watch the video here.
• Congratulations to CASOS Graduate Student Janice Blane who was selected for the prestigious General Omar N. Bradley Research Fellowship in Mathematics for 2022. More information about the fellowship can be found here.
• Director Kathleen M. Carley was interviewed by the Guardian regarding bot activity, COVID disinformation and the pivot towards Ukraine on social media. Read the full article here.
• Save the Date! Our annual CASOS Summer Institute will be June 13th - 19th. We will have a hybrid event this year. Find more information here.
• CASOS Graduate Student Major Geoffrey B. Dobson distinguished himself as Cyber Human Factors Lead for the Collaborative Interfaces and Teaming Branch, Warfighter Interactions and Readiness Division, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio in 2021. Major Dobson led the review of the Branch research portfolio worth over twelve million dollars and ensured over five-hundred recent cyber operational Techniques, Tactics, and Procedures were fully addressed. Additionally, he directed research projects that intersect cyber-operations and human-machine interactions, delivering critical capabilities to the warfighter. Finally, he designed a human factors experiment, which improved user work aids that increased cyber operator performance by seventy percent.
• A new article co-authored by Director Kathleen M. Carley entitled "Taiwan: China’s Gray Zone Doctrine in Action" was published in the online journal Small Wars February 11th. Read the full article here.
• Congrats to CASOS Center Alumni Iain Cruickshank Ph.D., who received the Eugene P. Visco prize from the Military Operations Research Society (MORS) Emerging Techniques Forum. This award is for excellence in research quality, contribution, and caliber for his presentation on “Multi- View Clustering of Social-Based Data.” This work was part of his PhD dissertation. This award recognizes early career and Junior Analysts for conducting impactful technically rigorous, and multidisciplinary research.

CASOS News 2021

• • CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley and alumni Iain Cruickshank collaborate with author and former vistor Gian Maria Campedelli on the publication, "Multi-modal Networks Reveal Patterns of Operational Similarity of Terrorist Organizations". Find the published publication here.
  • Director Kathleen M. Carley moderates the panel "Technology: Challenges and Possibilities" at the 2021 Grefenstette Symposium at Duquesne University November 4th.
  • Director Kathleen M. Carley presented as part of the Disinformation Panel during the 2021 INFORMS Annual Meeting.
  • Director Kathleen M. Carley gave a lecture entitled "Network Analysis for Patient Health" at the 2021 International Nursing Conference held by the Nursing Science Research Institute virtually from Singapore.
  • IDeaS Center and Hewlett are hosting a Cyber Initiative Seminar Achieving Democratic Unity and Cyber Scalability in a Contested Information Environment on Wednesday October 20th. More information here.
  • Members of the Knight Research Network, CMU IDeaS Center; NYU CsMaPP; IU OSoMe; and UNC CITAP, are making plans to host a tool demonstration day for other members of the network and invited guests on October 13th.
  • CASOS Graduate Student Luke Osterritter presented during a panel discussion at the CERT Insider Risk Management Symposium 2021. See the full panel here.
  • CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley participates in a panel on "Radicalization/Terrorism/Exploitation" for the IEEE Special Event on Mitigating Societal Harm in a Social Media World on September 21st.
  • 2021 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS) takes place next week on July 6th.
  • CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley participated in a panel lead by NSF on social, behavorial, economic, and governance aspects of pandemics. View the video here.
  • Graduate Student Joshua Uyheng receives the "Best Reviewer Award" for the 2021 ICWSM conference.
  • CASOS graduate student Lt. Col. Ryan Kenny, USA, wins 3rd place in the AFCEA International Cyber Edge Writing Contest for his essay titled "Precision-Guided Marketing and the Future of Information Operations." The essay will appear in Signal. [link to press release]
  • CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley joins the podcast Cybercrimeology to talk about social cybersecurity and BEND. Hear the full interview here.

     

  • Sienna Watkins shows her artistic side in the ISR Random video. Watch the full video here
  • The Center for Informed Democracy and Social-cybersecurity (IDeaS) is having their second annual conference on July 12th & 13th. Find more information here.
  • Paper "An egocentric analysis of adolescent-adult support networks, attitudes towards violence and retaliation, and violence exposure" receives a runner-up for best poster at The 3rd North American Social Networks Conference (NASN)
  • CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed by Yahoo Finance about the spread of disinformation online. Read full article here.
  • CASOS research is highlighted in the E&E article "Shadowy Twitter bots spread climate disinformation". Read full article here.
  • CASOS Faculty Kathleen M. Carley and L. Richard Carley were selected as one of the 15 university-based Minerva Research Initiative faculty teams to support research in the social and behavioral sciences. See the announcement and other awardees here.
  • CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed by the Business Insider about the future of the Parlor Platform. Read full article here.

CASOS News 2020

• • Director Kathleen M. Carley discusses CASOS reasearch about COVID and Social media in the Fall/Winter issue of CMU's School of Computer Science Magazine, The Link. See the full issue and read the article here.
  • Read Director Kathleen M. Carley's Essay on Disinformation entitled "Social influence campaigns in the cyber information environment". Read full essay here.
  • Article "Online misinformation is rampant. Four tips on stopping it" features comments from our Director Kathleen M. Carley and the research being done at the CASOS and IDeaS Centers. Read full article here.
  • The Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cybresecurity (IDeaS) Co-lead by Prof. Kathleen M. Carley will have it's first Institute and Conference November 18th-20th, Social-Cybersecurity in Times of Crisis and Change. Find more information here.
  • The 2020 SBP-BRiMS Conference will be taking place virtually October 18-21. Find more information here.
  • Director Kathleen M. Carley will be joining a panel and giving a talk "Social Influence and Disinformation in Cyberspace" at The 3rd Carnegie Mellon University Open Science Symposium Tuesday, October 20, 2020. More info...
  • The IDeaS Center co-directed by Kathleen M. Carley collaborated with Duquesne University for the Inaugural Grefenstette Symposium: Disinformation, Misinformation and Technology: New Ethical Challenges and Solutions on October 7th. Learn more about the symposium here.
  • The Block Center for Technology and Society and IDeaS Center will co-presented Combatting Disinformation One Month Before the Election: What State and Local Policy Makers Can Do with panelists Kathleen Carley and Yonatan Bisk on Tuesday, October 6th. See the video here.
  • Director Kathleen M. Carley sits down to talk to Dr. Nick van Terheyden on "The Incrementalist" to discuss social media and misinformation online. Full discussion here.
  • Through guided research opportunities, students are exploring issues related to COVID-19 and other topics at CMU this summer. Prof. Kathleen M. Carley will lead a project course. Find more information here.
  • Kathleen M. Carley sits down with Julie Rose of "Top of Mind" on BYU Radio June 10th to discuss how Twitter bots are responsible for most tweets about COVID-19. Discussion is here.
  • Wisconsin Public Radio conversation Kathleen M. Carley about how bots pushed to reopen the economy,wpr.org.
  • Center research is discussed in the article by Maya Shwayder in Digital Trends, "Researchers: Bots are spreading conspiracy theories about #blacklivesmatter". Read the full article here.
  • Director Kathleen M. Carley from Carnegie Mellon University speaks with ABC7's Kristen Sze about its use and power. Read the article here.
  • CASOS Summer Institute is virtual this year! Visit the Summer Institute webpage for additional details and updates.
  • Kathleen M. Carley and M. Anthony Mills (R Street Institute) pen the article in The Fulcrum, "Our duty as citizens includes combatting pandemic's digital disinformation", read article here.
  • MIT Technology Review Article, "Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots" discusses the research of Kathleen M. Carley and the IDeaS Center. Read full article here.
  • NPR interviews Kathleen M. Carley for their article, "Researchers: Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots". Read article here.
  • IDeaS Center co-director Kathleen M. Carley was named in Guide2Research's 2020 Ranking of Top 1000 Scientists in the field of Computer Science and Electronics. Prof. Carley ranked 286 in the world ranking and 189 in United States. The full world ranking is available here; the full ranking for United States is available here.
  • Director Kathleen M. Carley discusses disinformation and COVID-19 in the USA Today Article by Jessica Guynn.
  • VICE News interviews director Kathleen M. Carley about bots and misinformation surrounding COVID-19. Read the article here.
  • Action News Jacksonville features CASOS Center Research directed by Kathleen M. Carley in the article "Virus misinformation flourishes in online protest groups" about the spread of misinformation on Facebook with protest groups.
  • Director Kathleen M. Carley contributes to PBS News Hour's Courtney Vinopal article about misinformation and the pandemic, "Why uncertainty about coronavirus breeds opportunity for misinformation"
  • "There Is 'Way, Way More' Disinformation Related To Coronavirus Compared To Other Events" by Wesa.fm's Liz Reid highlights findings by Director Kathleen M. Carley and CASOS Center on misinformation about COVID-19.
  • Director Kathleen M. Carley joins CASOS graduate student Geoff Dobson on the podcast The COVID-19 Experience. Listen to this and other episodes here.
  • Director Kathleen M. Carley is a panelist for the R Street Institute Panel Combatting Digital Disinformation During a Global Pandemic streamed live on March 19, 2020.
  • Article "Investing in Social Cybersecurity" by CASOS graduate student David Beskow and Director Kathleen M. Carley is featured in the new volume of Naval Science and Technology Future Force pages 16-19.
  • Article "BEND: A Framework foor Social Cybersecurity" by Director Kathleen M. Carley is featured in the new volume of Naval Science and Technology Future Force pages 20-25.
  • Article "Identifying Misinformation Campaigns" by CASOS graduate student Iain Cruikshank and Director Kathleen M. Carley is featured in the new volume of Naval Science and Technology Future Force pages 36-37.
  • Popular Science article "Yes, the new coronavirus is mutating—but that’s not a bad thing SARS-CoV-2 is changing at the rate scientists would expect for a coronavirus"Kathleen M. Carley discusses CASOS Center research on Disinformation about Coronavirus Mutations.
  • Director Kathleen M. Carley discusses disinformation and COVID-19 in the USA Today Article by Jessica Guynn.
  • CASOS researchers study disinformation and the COVID-19 pandemic, find out more here.
  • Researchers at Princeton and Carnegie Mellon develop a new model to track epidemics. Article by John Sullivan can be found here.
  • Director Kathleen M. Carley presents CASOS research at the NAS Surprise Resulting from Convergence Workshop in Washington, DC February 6th and 7th.
  • Director Kathleen M. Carley participates in panel in Oslo Norway Hacking Democracy: Influence Operations in the Digital Age hosted by Norwegian Defence Research Establishment on February 13th.
  • Director Kathleen M. Carley briefs the hill on CASOS research February 27th in Washington, DC.

CASOS News 2019

• Newly released book, "Organizational Network Analysis" by author Anna Ujwary-Gil, is based on ORA software and uses the meta-network approach to organizational management, find the book here.
• Director Kathleen M. Carley gives Keynote at the TextXD (Text Analysis Across Domains) Conference held at University of California, Berkeley entitled "CUES - Understanding information maneuvers in social media using implicit information".
• Director Kathleen M. Carley gives Keynote at the AAAI Symposium on AI in Government and Private Sector in Arlington, VA.
• Our Director, Kathleen M. Carley made SAGE's list of "39 women doing amazing research in computational social science". Read more here.
• CASOS Center research is highlighted in the Post Gazette article "Can technology turn down the volume of online hate? Researchers at CMU are working to find an answer," published October 21st. Read the full article here.
• Listen to the interview with our Director Kathleen M. Carley on 90.5 WESA's "The Confluence" about the new IDeaS Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cybersecurity, https://www.wesa.fm/post/how-science-can-fight-social-media-war#stream/0.
• CASOS Graduate student, CPT Iain Cruikshank, was one of the top winners in the Army Flying Hour Challenge hosted by Army G-8 PA&E. His team won first place for Best Predictive Model.
• CASOS Graduate student, LTC David Beskow and his team won second place for Best Visualization in the Army Flying Hour Challenge hosted by Army G-8 PA&E.
• Our director Kathleen M. Carley will lead Carnegie Mellon's new Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cybersecurity funded by the Knight Foundation, more info here.
• CASOS graduate student David Beskow and director Kathleen M. Carley have a new article, "Army Must Regain Initiative in Social Cyberwar". Read the article here.
• CASOS Graduate student Iain Cruikshank won the best working paper award at the 2019 SBP-BRiMS Conference. Paper is entitled, "Detecting Malware Communities Using Socio-cultural Cognitive Mapping".
• See the new Cylab feature on the work done at CMU CASOS for the 2018 NATO Trident Juncture Excercise, more info here.
• CASOS Summer Institute is underway at CMU Campus June 10-16, 2019
• CASOS director Kathleen M. Carley lends her insight about bots and fake accounts in the Yahoo News article "Fake Facebook accounts: a never-ending battle against bots".
• In a ceremony on April 27, 2019, CASOS director Dr. Kathleen Carley was awarded the honorary degree in the annual awards ceremony of the University of Zurich. See the press release here.
• Our director, Prof. Kathleen M. Carley gave a keynote at the 2019 StratCom APAC Workshop hosted by NTU Institute of Science and Technology for Humanity in Singapore April 24th.
• CASOS director Kathleen M. Carley was one of the panelist at the 2019 Spring Simulation conference in Tucson, AZ for the panel on "Best Practices in Developing Artificial Societies".
• Our director, Prof. Kathleen M. Carley and other female colleagues were highlighted for their work in Cybersecurity. See the article and the women's profile's here.
• Our director, Prof. Kathleen M. Carley, sat down with Heinz Radio to talk bots, disinformation and network science. Listen to the full podcast here.
• Read about CASOS Center/CyLab study exploring the difference and relationships between non-satirical "fake-news" and satirical responses on Twitter during the Black Panther Movie Event, read more...
• CASOS Graduate student Lieutenant Colonel David Beskow was awarded the GEN Omar N. Bradley Research Fellowship in Mathematics for 2019.
• Former CASOS high school intern Natasha Kossovsky's paper, "The Collapse of the Second Yatsenyuk Government — Roll Call Vote and Dynamic Network Analysis" has been accepted for publication. The paper highlights the work she was doing with the CASOS Center last year. Congrats Natasha!
• CASOS Graduate student and ARCS Pittsburgh Scholar Thomas Magelinski was featured in a recent article released by the foundation highlighting his research in network science, read more.

• • CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley and other CMU Professors from CyLab at CMU are featured in the NY Times Article, 'Learning to Attack the Cyberattackers Can't Happen Fast Enough'.
  • CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley to give keynote at the IEEE Intelligence and Security (ISI) Conference in Miami, FL on Friday November 9.
  • CASOS Graduate student Binxuan Huang presented at the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference in Brussels, Belgium October 31-November 4.
  • CASOS Collaborator and Visitor Gian Maria Campedelli will be presenting research with CASOS Graduate student Iain Cruikshank at the International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications held at the University of Cambridge in December 2018, more info here.
  • CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley to give keynote at the 2018 ACM MobiCom Conference in New Delhi October 29 - November 2, 2018, more information at the conference website.
  • CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley gave an invited talk at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai as part of their Translational Epidemiology Seminar Series September 13, 2018.
  • CASOS Graduate Student Binxuan Huang received funding from the Graduate Student Assembly and Provost at CMU to attend the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
  • CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley and Graduate Students David Beskow and Geoffrey Dobson give panel talks at the 2018 HADR Workshop at Carnegie Mellon University August 2nd and 3rd.
  • CASOS Post Doc Matthew Babcock was the Runner Up for his Challenge Problem submission at the International Conference SBP-BRiMS.
  • CASOS Graduate Student David Beskow received the award for Best Student Paper at the International Conference SBP-BRiMS for his paper "Using Random String Classification to Filter and Annotate Automated Accounts".
  • CASOS Summer Institute gets underway June 11th!
  • CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley delivered an invited talk entitled "Bots Brokering Beliefs in Business" at the Machine Learning in Science and Engineering workshop at Carnegie Mellon University.
  • CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley to give the Sheffrin lecture at University of California Davis on Wednesday May 30th entitled, "Social Influence in Cyber Space".
  • CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley to give an invited talk at the University of Waterloo on May 14th entitled, "Wisdom & Ignorance: Managing and Manipulating Groups through Heedful Interaction".
  • CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley received the USGIF Academic Achievement Award at the 2018 GEOINT Conference in Tampa, FL, read more.
  • CASOS Student David Beskow to give a presentation entitled, "Bot hunter: Finding and Characterizing Autonomous agents in Social Media" during the Information and Cyber Operations Working Group at the 86th MORS Symposium in June.
  • CASOS student Geoffrey Dobson's paper entitled Virtual Cyber Warfare Experiments Based on Empirically Observed Adversarial Intrusion Chain Behavior was recently presented at the 13th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security and is included in the latest issue of Journal of Information Warfare.
  • CASOS student Thomas Magelinski's paper Legislative Voting Dynamics in Ukraine was accepted for presentation at the 2018 International Conference SBP-BRiMS.
  • CASOS student David Beskow's paper Using Random String Classification to Filter and Annotate Automated Accounts was accepted for presentation at the 2018 International Conference SBP-BRiMS.
  • CASOS student Sumeet Kumar's paper People2Vec: Learning Latent Representations of Users using Their Social-Media Activities was accepted for presentation at the 2018 International Conference SBP-BRiMS.
  • CASOS student Geoffrey Dobson's paper A Computational Model of Cyber Situational Awareness was accepted for presentation at the 2018 International Conference SBP-BRiMS.
  • CASOS visitor Gian Maria Campedelli and CASOS student Iain Cruikshank's paper Complex networks for Terrorist Target Prediction was accepted for presentation at the 2018 International Conference SBP-BRiMS.
  • CASOS student Binxuan Huang's paper Aspect Level Sentiment Classification with Attention-over-Attention Neural Networks was accepted for presentation at the 2018 International Conference SBP-BRiMS.
  • Carnegie Mellon University and the CASOS Center hosted the South Big Data Hub Security Working Group meeting on Friday March 23rd in Gates/Hillman Centers. This working group brought together students and faculty to address the problems that affect our cognitive security. The group will attempt to create a collaborative platform bringing data scientists, social scientists, cognitive scientists, psychologists, security experts, among others to share, exchange, learn, and develop new concepts, ideas, and principles.

CASOS News 2017

• • CASOS Director Kathleen will be the invited speaker for the ETH Risk Center Seminar Series on Resilience and its Applications on Tuesday November 14th in Zurich. Details can be found here.
  • Prof. Jose M.F. Moura will be presenting at the CASOS Network Science Seminar Series on Tuesday October 10 in GHC 8102, more info...
  • CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley will be giving a keynote at the 2017 Social Simulation conference in Dublin Ireland entitled "Diffusion in the Social-Cyber Landscape: Using simulation to explore the link between off-line and on-line activity".
  • CASOS Center is supporting NATO Trident Joust 2017. CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley and graduate students David Beskow and Binxuan Huang developed a dashboard to track indicators of bot influence.
  • CASOS graduate student Sumeet Kumar has been selected to receive GSA/Provost Conference Funding for Fall 2017 and has been accepted to attend the Doctoral Consortium at the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference in Las Vegas Nevada this December.
  • 2018 Summer Institute will be held at CMU June 10th-16th, 2018. Details and Registration to be updated soon.
  • Director Kathleen M. Carley has been invited to give a talk at the NASN2017 Conference in Washington, DC. The talk entitled, "Controlling Communities in Social Media" is part of the Dark Networks Panel scheduled for Saturday the 29th. Dr. Carley will also be presenting a paper Saturday on Socio-cultural Cognitive Mapping and facilitating a tutrial on Dynamic Networks to open the conference.
  • The Office of Naval Research has just granted a MURI award to Carnegie Mellon focusing on "Near Real Time Assessment of Emergent Complex Systems of Confederates". CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley is the PI for the award.
  • Dr. Kathleen M. Carley to give a Keynote address at the ic2s2, International Conference on Computational Social Science in Cologne Germany July 12th. Keynote is titled "Social Influence on the Web: Bots and Fake News".
  • CASOS graduate students Adam Tse with a paper entitled "Event-based Model Simulating the Change in DDoS Attack Trends after P/DIME Events", Geoffrey Dobson's paper entitled "Cyber-FIT: An Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Simulating Cyber Warfare" and Binxuan Huang's paper entitled "On Predicting Geolocation of Tweets using Convolutional Neural Network" are scheduled to presented at the 2017 SBP-BRiMS conference on July 6th.
  • CASOS graduate students Geoffrey Morgan and Sumeet Kumar are elected to be a part of the 1st Graduate Student Consortium at the 2017 SBP-BRiMS Conference.
  • CASOS Director Dr. Kathleen M. Carley and other members of CASOS to give tutorials at the 2017 SBP-BRiMS Conference on July 5th.
  • Summer Institute starts on Sunday June 4th! We are excited to welsome participants across academic and industry fields to join us for the week.
  • CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley has been invited to give a keynote address at the 2017 ic2s2 International Conference on Computational Science July 10th - 13th in Cologne, Germany https://ic2s2.org/2017/.
  • CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley will be presenting and facilitating a tutorial at the 2017 INSNA XXXVII Sunbelt Conference in Beijing China May 30th - June 4th, http://insna.org/sunbelt2017/.
  • Papers submitted by CASOS Center graduate students Geoffrey Morgan and Binxuan Huang along with masters student Adam Tse have been accepted for the 2017 SBP-BRiMS Conference. Geoffrey Morgan's paper is entitled "Socio-cultural Cognitive Modeling"; Binxuan Huang's paper is entitled "On Predicting Geolocation of Tweets using Convolutional Neural Networks"; Adam Tse's paper is entitled "Event-based Model Simulating the Change in DDoS Attack Trends after P/DIME Events".
  • CASOS graduate student Matthew Benigni will defend his PhD on Thursday April 20th at 11:30am in Newell-Simon Hall room 3305. His thesis is entitled Detection and Analysis of Online Extremist Communities
  • Dr. Kathleen M. Carley and Jeff Reminga to teach social network analysis in Riga Latvia, as part of the Social Media Analysis Course being designed with NATO. March 21-24, 2017.
  • Dr. Kathleen M. Carley to give plenary talk Wisdom or Ignorance: The Thoughtful Use of Networks at the 8th Annual ANN SONIC workshop on Network Theory at the University of Southern California March 23rd-25th in Los Angeles.
  • Dr. Kathleen M. Carley to give invited talk - Wisdom or Ignorance: The Heedful Manipulation of Networks at the Informatics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
  • The South Big Data Innovation Hub will bring together four experts for a roundtable discussion including our Director Kathleen M. Carley, that explores how bots and other new phenomena are shaping conversations and shifting public discourse on March 9th. Information about attending the discussion via live cast or in person, visit the South Big Data website at https://southbdhub.wordpress.com/programs/virtual-roundtables/.
  • Kathleen M. Carley to give invited talk Dynamic Network Analysis: Health Applications at the Public Health Dynamics Laboratory (PHDL) at the University of Pittsburgh Monday February 13th at noon.
  • A new ABC news article mentions the Hazard SEES project that CASOS is collaborating on. For more info on the Hazard SEES project and a link to the article, visit here.
  • The 2017 CASOS Summer Institute will be held at the Gates/Hillman Complex at Carnegie Mellon University June 4th through 11th. Registration and other information will follow in the upcoming months. To see what the Summer Institute is all about and see information from previous years, visit here.