David G. Rand is the Erwin H. Schell Professor and Professor of Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Biography

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. He earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell in

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in 2004, then worked for two years at

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. 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. In January 2012, Rand was named to Wired Magazine's Smart List 2012 as one of "50 people who will change the world".

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External links

Professional Website
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