COSMOS - Postdoctoral Fellow II
Core
Develop socio-computational models to understand cyber campaigns on social media, extract open-source information, and build predictive models of socio-technical behaviors.
Role type
Postdoctoral Fellow (Research)
Builds
Predictive models of socio-technical behaviors, tools/software to identify key actors in cyber campaigns, research reports and publications.
Domain
Computational Social Science, Cyber Security, Social Media Mining
Deliverable
production ML models | research | client delivery
Required skills
Social media mining, computational modeling of social science theories, social network analysis, cyber forensics, deep web search, grant writing, mentoring graduate students, project management
Preferred skills
Computer programming, data management, extensive publication record
Technologies
Python, SQL, Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, Gensim, BERTopic, TensorFlow, Pytorch, LLMs, Matplotlib, Seaborn, ggplot2, Git/GitHub, ClickUp, Jupyter Notebooks, NLTK, spaCy, TextBlob, VADER, BERT, GPT, NetworkX, igraph, Gephi
Responsibilities
Conduct social media analysis to support research projects; Lead tasks in data collection, cleaning, preprocessing, analysis, and interpretation; Analyze multimedia-rich online information environments to identify patterns and trends; Disseminate findings through reports, publications, and presentations; Contribute to the preparation of grant proposals and technical reports; Develop software modules to integrate research outcomes into practical tools; Provide training and technical assistance to stakeholders; Mentor and supervise graduate students; Organize and coordinate research team meetings.
Seniority
Postdoctoral Fellow (Early-career researcher)
