Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech Election Integrity Project

Please join us on Wednesday, January 28, 2026 at 11:00 am Pacific for "Beyond the Hype: A Research Driven Look at Claims About New Voting Technology" - the next episode of Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series moderated by R. Michael Alvarez, PhD, Flintridge Foundation Professor of Political and Computational Social Science at Caltech and Co-Director, Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP).

Professor Alvarez's guest for this episode will be Michael Specter, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Cybersecurity & Privacy at Georgia Tech. Professor Spector will be joined by Delaney Gomen, a PhD Student in Computer Science at Georgia Tech who conducts research on his team. Professor Alvarez and the Georgia Tech researchers will have a conversation about the findings from their latest study, how we can start to tackle the important science needed to understand voting system usability and accessibility, and how we rebuild trust in the elections community with computer scientists.

Professor Spector's research focuses on systems security and applied cryptography, particularly in areas relevant to public policy. Topics of interest include surveillance, cryptographic accountability, content moderation, misinformation, and elections security. He joined Georgia Tech in 2023 from Google, where he was a research scientist studying android security and privacy. He earned his PhD in EECS from MIT in 2021, where he was a member of the Internet Policy Research Initiative and the MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

Register in advance for this meeting: https://caltech.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_47zI0zKGQba6jKSz0xOyUg

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For more information on the Caltech Election Integrity Project, please visit our website at https://www.protectingtheelection.us/ or email us at [email protected].