[1] Salganik received his bachelor's degree in mathematics at Emory University in 1998.

He proceeded to get his master's degree in sociology at Cornell University in 2003, where he also lived in the Telluride House.

Alongside this, he also currently serves as the Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy.

[5] Salganik published his first book Bit by Bit,[6] on December 5, 2017, in which he explores the birth and spread of social media and other digital advancements and how this has ultimately changed the way social scientists and data scientists can conduct research to collect and process data on human behavior.

Other publications include articles in Science,[7] PNAS,[8] Sociological Methodology,[9] and Journal of the American Statistical Association.