Matthew Salganik Department of Sociology Princeton University 145 Wallace Hall Princeton, NJ 08544 609.258.8867 (phone) 609.258.2180 (fax) mjs3@princeton.edu

Matthew Salganik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. His interests include social networks, quantitative methods, and web-based social research. One main area of his research has focused on developing network-based statistical methods for studying populations most at risk for HIV/AIDS. A second main area of work has been using the World Wide Web to collect and analyze social data in innovative ways.

Salganik's research has been published in journals such as Science, Sociological Methodology, and Journal of the American Statistical Association. His papers have won the Outstanding Article Award from the Mathematical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and the Outstanding Statistical Application Award from the American Statistical Association. Popular accounts of his work have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Economist, and New Yorker. Salganik's research is currently funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Joint United Nations Program for HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and Google.

Updates from Matt:

• I've released all the data that were collected during my dissertation "Success and Failure in Cultural Markets" into the Office of Population Research data archive. This should allow others to replicate and, I hope, extend some of the findings.
• The Princeton Weekly Bulletin recently published a nice profile of my research.
• My new web-based research project, All Our Ideas, has launched. Using the power of the web, we are creating a data collection tool that has the scale, speed, and quantification of a survey while still allowing for new information to "bubble up" from respondents as happens in interviews, participant observation, and focus groups. Feel free to try it out.