{"id":674,"date":"2015-07-13T10:05:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T14:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/?p=674"},"modified":"2015-07-13T10:13:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T14:13:48","slug":"aditya-prakash-receives-facebook-faculty-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2015\/07\/13\/aditya-prakash-receives-facebook-faculty-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Aditya Prakash receives Facebook Faculty Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/people.cs.vt.edu\/badityap\/\">Aditya Prakash<\/a>, assistant professor in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.vt.edu\/\">Department of Computer Science<\/a>, received a Facebook Faculty Gift.\u00a0 This gift is one of 10 such awards given at this time from the Facebook Faculty Program.\u00a0 According to Aditya, \u201cThe award will support novel information diffusion related research focusing on understanding, predicting and countering virality on social-media websites and platforms.\u00a0 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?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_679\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 160px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/07\/Aditya-Prakash.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-679\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/07\/Aditya-Prakash-150x134.png\" alt=\"Aditya Prakash \" width=\"150\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Aditya Prakash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aditya Prakash, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, received a Facebook Faculty Gift.\u00a0 This gift is one of 10 such awards given at this time from the Facebook Faculty Program.\u00a0 According to Aditya, \u201cThe award will support novel information diffusion related research focusing on understanding, predicting and countering virality on social-media websites and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}