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Ceren Budak

Ceren Budak

Associate Professor of Information, School of Information, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering and Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research Email: cbudak@umich.edu Phone: 734/764-3341
Office: ISR/426 Thompson Street Faculty Role: Faculty Potential PhD Faculty Advisor: Yes Personal website

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Biography

Areas of interest

My interests lie in the area of computational social science. I am particularly interested in the use of large scale data sets and computational techniques to study problems with policy, social and political implications. 

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Mercury Project Grant, Targeting health misinformation networks: Network-transforming interventions for reducing the spread of health misinformation online. UMSI. Eric Gilbert, Ceren Budak, Sarita Schoenebeck
UMSI faculty awarded Mercury Project grant to fight health disinformation

UMSI researchers join the Mercury Project to combat mis- and disinformation on public health, including vaccines. Their project focuses on targeting misinformation networks on social media.

 

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"Eight UMSI faculty earn NSF CAREER and DARPA awards" inside a laurel leaf half circle. Words that describe their research float on the opposite side, including human-centered, voice technology, privacy, justice, Parsons problems, marginalized communities, disinformation, and social media.
Eight UMSI Faculty Celebrate Distinguished Early Career Awards

Since 2020, eight UMSI faculty members have earned some of the field’s most significant awards for their research endeavors. UMSI recently celebrated their achievements and heard research updates from the awardees.

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