Matthew J. Salganik
Matthew J. Salganik is a sociologist with a special interest on social networks and computational social science.[1]
Professional Background[edit]
Salganik is currently a sociology professor at Princeton University where he was hired in 2007. There he was promoted from Assistant Professor to Full Professor in 2013. Salganik is also affiliated with interdisciplinary 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. [2] Salganik received his Bachelors in Mathematics at Emory University in 1998. He proceeded to get his Masters in Sociology at Cornell University in 2003. He finished his Ph.D. Sociology (with distinction) at Columbia University in 2007. [3]
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.[4]
Publications[edit]
Salganik published his first book Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age. Princeton University Press. 2018. ISBN 9780691158648. Search this book on 
, on December 5th, 2017, in which he explores the birth and spread of social media and other technological advancements and how this has ultimately changed the way social scientists can collect and process data on human behavior.
Other publications include articles in Science[5], PNAS[6], Sociological Methodology[7], and Journal of the American Statistical Association[8]. His work has appeared in media outlets, such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Journal Economist, and the New Yorker.
Awards[edit]
Salganik won the Outstanding Article Award from the Mathematical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association[9] in 2005. He won the Outstanding Statistical Application Award from the American Statistical Association in 2008.
References[edit]
- ↑ [1].
- ↑ [2].
- ↑ [http://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/salganik-cv.pdf ].
- ↑ http://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/
- ↑ http://science.sciencemag.org/content/311/5762/854.full
- ↑ http://www.pnas.org/content/107/15/6743
- ↑ http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0081175016665425
- ↑ http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1198/jasa.2009.ap08518
- ↑ http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/groups/mathsoc/Newfiles/cumulative%20awards.pdf
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