D. Saari

Donald Gene Saari is the Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Economics and director of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at the University of California Irvine. He received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1962 from Michigan Technological University, his Master of Science and PhD in Mathematics from Purdue University in 1964 and 1967, respectively. From 1968 to 2000, he served as assistant, associate, and full professor of mathematics at Northwestern University. He holds the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Distinguished Chair at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. In 1985, with John B. Urenko, Saari received a Lester Randolph Ford Award. He received in 1995 the Chauvenet Prize and in 1999, with Fabrice Valognes, the Allendoerfer Award. In 2001 he was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences, and in 2004 he was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Saari has been widely quoted as an expert in voting methods and lottery odds.