Micah Altman is Senior Research Scientist in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, Associate Director of the Harvard-MIT Data Center, and Archival Director of the Henry A. Murray Research Archive.
Dr. Altman (Ph.D., California Institute of Technology) serves as a Co-Principle Investigator in a number of sponsored research projects, promoting computationally reliable and efficient statistical methods; and the collection, sharing, citation and preservation of research data through the development of methodologies, standards, and open-source software tools.
Dr. Altman's work has been recognized by the Supreme Court and by Who's Who in America. His extensively-reviewed book, Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist, corrects common computational errors made across the range of social sciences. And his over thirty publications and five open-source software packages span political science, computer science, informatics, statistics, and many other disciplines in social and information sciences.
Dr. Altman has won the 2005 Best Political Science Software Award and the 1999 Best Political Science Research Website Award, given by the American Political Science Association (CMS & ITP), 1999 Outstanding Dissertation Award, given by the Western Political Science Association, for best dissertation in the Western region; and the 1998 Weaver Award, for best paper in representation and electoral systems, given by the American Political Science Association.
Dr. Altman is on the editorial board of The Journal of Information Technology and Politics and has served on the board of The International Encyclopedia of Political Science and The Journal of E-Government; as a guest editor for The Social Science Computer Review, and Journal of Statistical Software; as the head of Information Technology and Politics section of the Midwestern Political Science Association conference, and as the president of the Information Technology and Politics organized section of the American Political Science Association. He has been an invited speaker for many organizations, including the Kennedy School of Government, International Consortium for Political and Social Research, International Federation of Library Associations, National Conference of State Legislatures, and American Association of Geographers.
Dr. Altman earned a Ph.D. in Social Science from the California Institute of Technology. Prior to studying at CalTech, Dr. Altman worked as a software engineer in "Silicon Valley" developing software, courses, teaching and consulting on the subject of high-performance computing. He is currently researching statistical methods for analyzing redistricting plans, computational techniques to improve the accuracy and performance of statistical estimation, and digital library design and use.
Dr Altman's homepage can be found at http://www.hmdc.harvard.edu/micah_altman/. You may also be interested in his full curriculum vitae.
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