Carter Butts named Chancellor Professor.
Aug. 2, 2021
UC Irvine sociology professor Carter Butts has been named UCI Chancellor’s Professor. The honorary title – granted for a five-year renewable term – recognizes professors who have shown outstanding academic merit and who show continued promise for scholarly achievement.
Butts is a mathematical sociologist who specializes in the study of social networks. He’s applied complex system models to shed light on everything from how proteins form new structures – leading to insight about Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes – to the role Twitter plays in emergency management and communication during times of crises. His work has been funded by multimillion dollar grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He joined the UCI faculty in 2002 after completing his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University. He’s an affiliated researcher at CALIT2 and he holds courtesy appointments in UCI’s statistics and electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) departments.
