Dr. Matthew Salganik

Biography

Matthew Salganik is a Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. He is affiliated with Princeton's interdisciplinary research centers and has a focus on population research and statistics, particularly in the fields of social networks and computational social science. His research has been published in prestigious journals including Science, PNAS, and the Journal of the American Statistical Association. Salganik has received multiple awards, including the Outstanding Article Award from the Mathematical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association on two occasions and the Outstanding Statistical Application Award from the same association. His work has also gained public attention, with popular accounts appearing in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Economist, and New Yorker. His research has been funded by prestigious organizations such as the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, UNAIDS, Russell Sage Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He serves on the Board of Directors of Mathematica and has held positions as a Visiting Professor at Cornell Tech and as a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research.

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