Matthew Salganik
Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Sociology · School of Engineering and Applied Science · Princeton University
Quick answer: Matthew Salganik is Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. Matthew Salganik shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-11.
⭐ Come do a postdoc with Arvind Narayanan and me. We are searching for a joint postdoc interested in machine learning in social settings. Topics include but are not limited to: identifying and measuring limits to predictability; distribution shift; strengthening reproducibility, reliability, and robustness; ethical impacts. The postdoc will be part of the Center for Information Technology Policy and
Research interests
about AI, especially its impact on science, the economy, and society. You can read more about the project and its early findings in this article from the Economist and this working paper. (November 2025) I've been promoted to the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Sociology. I'm grateful for this honor, and it would not have been possible without the help of many mentors, colleagues, students, friends, and family. (July 2025) My working paper, "The Book of Life approach: Enabling richness and scale for life course research", co-authored with Mark Verhagen, Benedikt Stroebl, Tiffany Liu, and Lydia Liu has been posted on arXiv. We've also released the open-source Book of Life Toolkit. Feedback welcome. (July 2025) We are happy to share an open-source benchmark for GPUs in a secure computing environment. No private data are required, and it is relatively easy to run. Feel free to use and improve. This work was a wonderful collaboration with our colleagues from the Netherlands eScience Center. (April 2025) I am happy to become a core faculty member at Princeton Precision Health. You can learn more about this new initiative in this article about Princeton Precision Health. (March 2025) My paper, "The origins of unpredictability in life outcome prediction tasks", co-authored with Ian Lundberg, Rachel Brown-Weinstock, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, Sarah Pachman, Tim Nelson, Vicki Yang, and Kathy Edin was published in PNAS. Also, Mario Small wrote an excellent commentary that captures our paper's essence and places it in a larger context. I hope our paper will help build intuition about predictability of life outcomes and serve as a framework for future empirical work. (July 2024) My paper, "REFORMS: Consensus-based Recommendations for Machine-learning-based Science", co-authored with a large group led by Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan was published in Science Advances. I hope this paper will help improve and accelerate the use of machine learning in scientific research. (M
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Is Matthew Salganik hiring PhD students at Princeton University?
Yes. As of 2026-09-11, Matthew Salganik's faculty page shows a PhD hiring signal: Come do a postdoc with Arvind Narayanan and me. We are searching for a joint postdoc interested in machine learning in social settings. Topics include but are not limited to: identifying and measuring.
What does Matthew Salganik research?
about AI, especially its impact on science, the economy, and society. You can read more about the project and its early findings in this article from the Economist and this working paper. (November 2025) I've been promoted to the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Sociology. I'm grateful for this h
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