The SPARTA Lab is currently looking for self-motivated students seeking a Ph.D. in Computer Science and interested in pursuing research in topics related to computational social science, online privacy, and Internet measurement. Send an email to "rishab[-]nithyanand[at]uiowa[dot]edu" with the subject "you NEED to hire me!" if you're interested in working with us and have a demonstrably strong background in any of the following areas: computer networking, statistics, text analytics, or experiment design.
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March 03, 2022
Can proactive interventions help moderate Reddit's communities?
In this blog post, Hussam Habib provides an overview of our work to understand whether dangerous online communities can be identified by their evolutionary characteristics. Read more about the work here.
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August 01, 2020
ICANN's gTLD experiments: Expansion or extortion?
This blog post motivates our recently published PAM 2020 paper which seeks to understand the cost of ICANNs gTLD expansion on major brands and their copyrights.
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February 03, 2020
Apophanies or Epiphanies?
We recently received notification that our work was accepted for publication at The Web Conference (WWW 2020). In this post, we provide a short summary of the work.
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