Warren Smith

Warren Smith is a PhD mathematician who has studied voting methods for some years. He has been studying election methods since 1999, conducted the world's largest computer simulations of election methods. Born 12-22-64, Cleveland, Ohio. US citizen

He founded the center for range voting jointly with Jan Kok in 2005. He was the first to measure that benefit for the range voting system via massive computer election simulations with the aid of a statistical yardstick called Bayesian Regret. This measurement showed that range voting is superior to every other commonly proposed single-winner voting system. Warren was the first Center For Election Science president, and was later replaced by Hamlin. After that Warren who was basically the whole center for Range Voting focused on research. The CES focused on outreach and later changed to electionscience.org

Warren Smith began rangevoting.org in about 2003 which is one of the most detailed pages about election science to date.

Employment history

   * 2002-: Faculty, Temple University Math Dept., Philadelphia PA. 
   * 1990-2002: Research Scientist, NEC Research Institute, Inc. 4 Independence Way Princeton NJ 08540. 
   * 1988-1990: 2-year postdoc, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Mathematical sciences research center, Murray Hill NJ. 

Education

   * Ph.D. (Applied Math) Princeton 1988
   * Ph.D. Thesis: ``Studies in computational geometry motivated by mesh generation, (485 pp.) Advisors: J.H. Conway & R.E. Tarjan, Princeton University.
   * M.A. (Applied Math) Princeton 1986
   * B.Sc. (Physics) 1984 & B.Sc. (Math) 1984 (double major) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (4.7/5 GPA. Also got perfect scores on both the Physics and Math special subject "GRE" tests.)
   * B.Sc. Thesis: ``Learning and Rating Systems. Advisor: Richard P. Stanley.