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an American physicist, mathematician, general theoretical scientist, and in 2005 founder of the ''Center of Range Voting'' <ref>[https://rangevoting.org/ Center for Range Voting - front page]</ref>.
He received a double [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Science B.Sc.] from [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics physics] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics mathematics], and a Ph.D. at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University Princeton University] in the field of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_mathematics applied mathematics] on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_geometry computational geometry] motivated by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_generation Mesh generation],
He was affiliated with the [[Bell Laboratories|AT&T Bell Laboratories]], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_Corporation_of_America NEC Research Institute], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton,_New_Jersey Princeton, New Jersey], where he wrote most of his papers during the 90s, and with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIMACS DIMACS].
His research interest covers the broad range of mathematics, physics, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory information theory], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science computer science] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics politics], amongst other things on [[Algorithms|algorithms]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coding_theory coding theory], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography cryptography], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorics combinatorics], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_theory computational complexity], [[Search|game tree search]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory game theory], computer chess, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics quantum mechanics], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_statistics Bayesian statistics], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting range voting] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy direct democracy].