Scholar
Matthew J. Salganik
Google Scholar ID: D5Ty-jAAAAAJ
Department of Sociology, Princeton University
Citations & Impact
Citations
6,273
H-index
29
i10-index
34
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
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Academic Achievements
- Published in top journals including Science, Nature, PNAS, Sociological Methodology, and Journal of the American Statistical Association
- Twice recipient of the Outstanding Article Award from the Mathematical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
- Recipient of the Outstanding Statistical Application Award from the American Statistical Association
- Awarded the Leo Goodman Mid-Career Award and the William Ogburn Mid-Career Award
- Received the Outstanding Recent Alumni Award from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
- Commendation for Outstanding Teaching from Princeton’s School of Engineering & Applied Science
- Former Fulbright Fellow
- Research funded by NSF, NIH, UNAIDS, Russell Sage Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Facebook, and Google
- 2024 paper 'The origins of unpredictability in life outcome prediction tasks' published in PNAS
- 2024 co-authored paper 'REFORMS: Consensus-based Recommendations for Machine-learning-based Science' published in Science Advances
- 2025 working paper 'The Book of Life approach' and open-source 'Book of Life Toolkit' released
- 2025 co-developed an open-source GPU benchmark for secure computing environments
Research Experience
- Professor of Sociology at Princeton University
- Visiting Professor at Cornell Tech (during sabbatical)
- Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research (during sabbatical)
- Member at the Institute for Advanced Study (during sabbatical)
- Professor in Residence at The New York Times (during sabbatical)
- Core faculty member at Princeton Precision Health (since March 2025)