Carter Butts

Carter Butts is a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine with appointments spanning Sociology, Statistics, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He holds affiliations with the UCI Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), where he directs the Center for Networks and Relational Analysis.

His educational background includes:

• Ph.D. in Sociology from Carnegie Mellon University (2002)
• M.S. in Sociology from Carnegie Mellon University (1998)
• B.S. in Systems Theory from Duke University (1996)

Butts' research integrates computational, mathematical, and statistical methodologies to analyze social and biophysical networks, communication systems, and interaction dynamics. His work bridges sociology, statistics, and computer science to model complex network structures and behavioral patterns, with emphasis on interdisciplinary applications in computational social science and network theory.

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He leads the Networks, Computation, and Social Dynamics Lab, which focuses on developing advanced analytical frameworks for studying relational data and dynamic network processes across social and biological domains.