About me

I am a PhD student in Computer Science Department at UCSB. I am in the DSL lab and work with Prof. Amr El Abbadi and Prof. Divyakant Agrawal. I received my Bachelors degree from Computer Science Dept. @Bilkent University in Turkey in 2007.

Research Interests

I work on social networks, more specifically in models of information diffusion, algorithms and streams in the context of social networks.


Publications

Information diffusion in social networks: observing and affecting what society cares about
Divyakant Agrawal, Ceren Budak, Amr El Abbadi
CIKM '11 Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management, 2011 Slides are available here

Structural Trend Analysis for Online Social Networks
Ceren Budak, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment , Volume 4 Issue 10, 2011

Limiting the spread of misinformation in social networks
Ceren Budak, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi
WWW '11 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web, 2011

Data-Driven Modeling and Analysis of Online Social Networks
Divyakant Agrawal, Bassam Bamieh, Ceren Budak, Amr El Abbadi, Andrew Flanagin, Stacy Patterson
WAIM'11: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Web-age information management, 2011

Solving path problems on the GPU
Aydin Buluç, John R. Gilbert, Ceren Budak
Parallel Computing, 36(5-6):241 - 253, 2010