Ramon Michael Alvarez 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.
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. In February 2002, he became a tenured full professor at Caltech. ==Honors and awards==