Aditya Prakash, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, received a Facebook Faculty Gift. This gift is one of 10 such awards given at this time from the Facebook Faculty Program. According to Aditya, “The award will support novel information diffusion related research focusing on understanding, predicting and countering virality on social-media websites and platforms. For example, some of the questions we will be studying include: What content could go viral? How much and when? Given a context, how to identify and counter negative viral campaigns?”
