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.

Papers and Tutorials

Divyakant Agrawal, Ceren Budak, Amr El Abbadi "Information Diffusion In Social Networks: Observing and Affecting What Society Cares About" CIKM Tutorial 2011. SLIDES

Ceren Budak, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi "Structural Trend Analysis for Online Social Networks" VLDB 2011. pdf

Divyakant Agrawal, Ceren Budak, Amr El Abbadi "Information Diffusion In Social Networks: Observing and Influencing Societal Interests" VLDB Tutorial 2011. pdf, long version

and slides

Ceren Budak, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi "Limiting the Spread of Misinformation in Social Networks" WWW 2011. pdf

Ceren Budak, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi "Where The Blogs Tip: Connectors, Mavens, Salesmen and Translators of the Blogosphere." SOMA 2010. pdf

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