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
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
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment , Volume 4 Issue 10, 2011
Information Diffusion In Social Networks: Observing and Influencing Societal Interests
Divyakant Agrawal, Ceren Budak, Amr El Abbadi
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment , Volume 4 Issue 12, 2011 A more detailed write-up and the slides are available here.
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment , Volume 4 Issue 12, 2011 A more detailed write-up and the slides are available here.
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
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
WAIM'11: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Web-age information management, 2011
Where the blogs tip: connectors, mavens, salesmen and translators of the blogosphere
Ceren Budak, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi
SOMA '10 Proceedings of the First Workshop on Social Media Analytics, 2010
SOMA '10 Proceedings of the First Workshop on Social Media Analytics, 2010