Hi! I'm Samuel. I'm an election scientist who works to improve and reform electoral institutions. I'm the Research Director of GoodParty.org, where my research helps thousands of nonpartisan candidates and elected officials serve their communities.

Before that, I was a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where I wandered the tunnels and directed the research of the MIT Election Data and Science Lab. I have a PhD in political science and scientific computing and an MS in applied math from the University of Michigan, and a BSc in astrophysics from the University of Toronto.

Academically, I've developed computational models to understand how changes in electoral systems might actually affect election results, by explicitly modeling voter behaviour under the new system. I've also advised local and regional governments on election administration, helped build voter files at Catalist, and worked with the data teams of prominent reform-oriented and social democratic organizations.

I've also spent a lot of time editing Wikipedia, focusing on politics and sometimes math. Wikipedia pages I wrote have been viewed about 14 million times (as of mid-2026).


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