David G. Rand is the Erwin H. Schell Professor and Professor of Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
David Rand | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Cornell University Harvard University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Psychology, Economics, Marketing, Mathematical Biology, Cognitive Science, Management |
Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Doctoral advisor | Martin Nowak |
Other academic advisors | Joshua Greene |
Website | http://www.DaveRand.org |
Rand grew up in Ithaca, New York, where his father is a professor at Cornell University. As a teenager he was in several rock bands,[1] including solo project Robot Goes Here.
He earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell in computational biology in 2004, then worked for two years at Gene Network Sciences.[1][2] He then went to Harvard, where he earned a PhD in systems biology in 2009. After 4 years of post-doctoral studies at Harvard, in 2013 Rand began an assistant professorship at Yale University in psychology, economics, management. In 2017 he was appointed a tenure-track associate professor in psychology at Yale. In 2018 he was promoted to associate professor with tenure at Yale, and then moved to MIT as a tenured associate professor.[2]
In January 2012, Rand was named to Wired Magazine's Smart List 2012 as one of "50 people who will change the world".[3]