David Beskow
CASOS Alumni, ISR, CASOS

Email: dbeskow[AT]andrew.cmu.edu

Advisor: Kathleen M. Carley

Office: Wean Hall 4113

Projects:

Publications:

Beskow, David. (2020). Finding and Characterizing Information Warfare Campaigns. Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, Institute for Software Research, CASOS, Doctor of Philosophy, WebSite: [link]

Beskow, David & Kumar, Sumeet & Carley, Kathleen M . (2020). The Evolution of Political Memes: Detecting and Characterizing Internet Memes with Multi-modal Deep Learning. Information Processing and Mangement, 57, [DOI]

Magelinski, Thomas & Beskow, David & Carley, Kathleen M . (2020). Graph-Hist: Graph Classification from Latent Feature Histograms with Application to Bot Detection. AAAI Proceedings,

Beskow, David & Carley, Kathleen M . (2020). Investing in Social Cybersecurity. Future Forces, 6, 16 - 19.

Beskow, David & Carley, Kathleen M . (2020). You are Known by Your Friends: Leveraging Network Metrics for Bot Detection in Twitter. Open Source Intelligence and Cyber Crime,

Beskow, David & Carley, Kathleen M . (2020). Characterization and Comparison of Russian and Chinese Disinformation Campaigns. Disinformation, Misinformation, and Fake News in Social Media: Emerging Research Challenges and Opportunities, Lecture Notes in Social Networks, Springer International Publishing. [DOI]

Beskow, David & Carley, Kathleen M . (2019). Future Geospatial Disinformation Campaigns. The Cyber Defense Review, 131-141. WebSite: [link]

Beskow, David & Carley, Kathleen M . (2019). Social Cybersecurity: An Emerging National Security Requirement. Military Review, WebSite: [link]

Beskow, David & Carley, Kathleen M . (2019). Army Must Regain Initiative in Social Cyberwar. Army Magazine, WebSite: [link]

Babcock, Matthew & Beskow, David & Carley, Kathleen M . (2019). Different Faces of False: The spread and curtailment of false information in the Black Panther Twitter discussion. Journal of Data and Information Quality, 11, [DOI]

Beskow, David & Carley, Kathleen M . (2018). Using Random String Classification to Filter and Annotate Automated Accounts. In Proceedings of the 2018 SBP-BRiMS Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, June 10-13, 2018, Washington, DC ,

Babcock, Matthew & Beskow, David & Carley, Kathleen M . (2018). Beaten Up on Twitter? Exploring Fake News and Satirical Responses During the Black Panther Movie Event. In Proceedings of the 2018 SBP-BRiMS Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, Washington, DC, June 10-13, 2018 ,

Beskow, David & Carley, Kathleen M . (2018). Introducing Bothunter: A tiered Approach to Detection and Characterizing Automated Activity on Twitter. In Proceedings of the 2018 SBP-BRiMS Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, Washington, DC, June 10-13, 2018, Springer. , [pdf]

Beskow, David & Carley, Kathleen M . (2018). Bot Conversations are Different:Leveraging Network Metrics for Bot Detection in Twitter. In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/ACM international Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 825-832. IEEE. [DOI]

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