Sam Wang

Why you should listen

Sam Wang is a computational modeler and professor of neuroscience at Princeton University who uses his skills to identify ways to repair democracy and level the electoral playing field for voters. In 2004, he pioneered the statistical aggregation of presidential polls to reduce noise in media coverage. In 2015, he founded the Princeton Gerrymandering Project to identify and combat gerrymandering, an offense that enables politicians to guarantee their careers by handpicking their voters. He is the founding director of the Electoral Innovation Lab, which uses big data and cognitive science to pinpoint how to help voters maximize their influence over the government they elect.