Matthew Jeffrey Salganik (born 1976) is an American sociologist and professor of
sociology at
Princeton University with a special interest on
social networks and
computational social science.
Career
Salganik received his bachelor's degree in mathematics at
Emory University in 1998. He proceeded to get his master's degree in
sociology at
Cornell University in 2003, where he also lived in the Telluride House. He finished his Ph.D. in sociology (with distinction) at Columbia University in 2007. Salganik was hired by
Princeton in 2007 as an assistant professor and was promoted to full professor in 2013. Alongside this, he also currently serves as the Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy. Salganik is affiliated with
interdisciplinary
Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project). It draws knowledge from several other fields like sociology, anthropology, psychology, ec ...
research centers at Princeton, such as the Office for Population Research, the Center for Information Technology Policy, the Center for Health and Wellbeing, and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning.
In 2017, he and Chris Bail co-founded Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), an annual program that provides learning and research opportunities for students, faculty, and researchers across the world within the realm of data science and social science.
His research has been previously funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Joint United Nations Programs for HIV/AIDS, Russell Sage Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Facebook, and Google.
Publications
Salganik published his first book ''Bit by Bit'', on December 5, 2017, in which he explores the birth and spread of
social media and other digital advancements and how this has ultimately changed the way social scientists and data scientists can conduct research to collect and process data on human behavior.
Other publications include articles in ''
Science'', ''
PNAS
''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America'' (often abbreviated ''PNAS'' or ''PNAS USA'') is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal. It is the official journal of the National Academy of Scien ...
'', ''
Sociological Methodology
''Sociological Methodology'' is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research methods in the field of sociology. The editors-in-chief are David Melamed and Mike Vuolo (The Ohio State University). It was established in 1969 and is ...
'', and ''
Journal of the American Statistical Association''. His work has appeared in ''
The New York Times'', ''
Wall Street Journal'', ''Journal Economist'', and ''
The New Yorker''.
Awards
Salganik won the Outstanding Article Award from the Mathematical Sociology Section of the
American Sociological Association
The American Sociological Association (ASA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology. Founded in December 1905 as the American Sociological Society at Johns Hopkins University by a group of fif ...
in 2005. He won the Outstanding Statistical Application Award from the
American Statistical Association in 2008.
* Outstanding Article Award (2005)
* Outstanding Statistical Application Award (2008)
* Google Faculty Research Award (2011)
* Leo Goodman Early Career Award (2015).
References
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1976 births
Living people
Princeton University faculty
American sociologists
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni