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Cameron Marlow

Cameron Marlow

CTO, data scientist and entrepreneur (healthcare AI)

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Menlo Park, California
Joined November 2024
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Summary

High‑impact computational social scientist: Marlow is a widely cited researcher whose work bridges social science and large‑scale computation. His publications (including collaborations on large field experiments and diffusion studies) have been highly influential in understanding social influence, information diffusion, and the structural properties of online networks. google+1
Academic→industry leader who built and led data science teams: After PhD work at the MIT Media Lab, Marlow led Facebook's Data Science team where he ran large‑scale analyses and experiments that informed product and scientific understanding of social behavior. That academic foundation informs his approach to product and measurement. technologyreview+1
Entrepreneur applying data and ML to healthcare operations: Marlow co‑founded Physera (digital physical therapy) and later Apella (AI and computer vision for OR optimization), shifting his expertise in measurement and large datasets to operational healthcare problems and productizing signals to improve clinical processes. apella+1
Engineer and open‑source practitioner: Marlow maintains public code and projects on GitHub and has a history of building practical research software (Blogdex, various utilities and libraries), indicating strengths in systems, data engineering, and reproducible research. github+1

Work

Education

Projects

Writing

A 61‑million‑person experiment in social influence and political mobilization

January 1, 2012

Large‑scale field experiment studying social influence on political mobilization (highly cited, Nature 2012 paper among collaborators).

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The role of social networks in information diffusion

January 1, 2012

Conference paper on information diffusion in networks (key work on diffusion and social contagion; widely cited).

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HT06: tagging paper (audience, structure and authority in the weblog community)

January 1, 2006

Early influential work on tagging, weblog community structure, and how ideas spread through blogging networks (conference paper / workshop material).

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Ph.D. thesis: "The Structural Determinants of Media Contagion"

January 1, 2005

Doctoral dissertation (MIT Media Lab) analyzing how weblogs and readership networks influence the spread of media events and information contagion.

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Hobbies

Active open‑source contributor / maintainer (multiple public repositories on GitHub). github

Notes

ATAlex Teichmansaid
CMCameron Marlow
is one of the most impressive senior engineering leaders they've worked with when it comes to scaling teams and shaping technical strategy.

Jul 22, 2026