Ramon Michael Alvarez (born 1964)[1] is professor of political science at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), as well as the co-director of the Voting Technology Project, a joint Caltech-Massachusetts Institute of Technology initiative.
[2] Alvarez served as a Robert S. Rankin Instructor of American Politics at Duke for one year (1991–92), after which he joined Caltech in 1992 as assistant professor of political science.
[2] In 2002, Alvarez received the Emerging Scholar Award from the American Political Science Association's Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section.
[2] He was named in the "50 Award" computing category, alongside Ted Selker.
[3] He was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.