David G. Rand

David Rand
EducationCornell University
Harvard University
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology, Economics, Marketing, Mathematical Biology, Cognitive Science, Management
WorkplacesCornell University
Martin Nowak
Other academic advisors
Joshua Greene
Websitehttp://www.DaveRand.org

David G. Rand is an American academic who is a professor of information science, marketing, and psychology at Cornell University. His research uses behavioral experiments, field studies, and computational methods to study cooperation, human decision-making, misinformation, political polarization, and interactions between humans and generative artificial intelligence.[1][2]

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,[3] 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.[3][4] 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, where he then became full professor. In 2025, he joined Cornell University as a professor of Information Science, Marketing, and Psychology.[5]

In January 2012, Rand was named to Wired Magazine's Smart List 2012 as one of "50 people who will change the world".[6]

Publications

Scientific
Popular media

Notes and references

  1. ↑ "David Rand". Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. Retrieved 2026-08-20.
  2. ↑ "David Rand | Department of Information Science | Cornell Bowers". infosci.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2026-08-20.
  3. 1 2 Rand, David (November 9, 2016). "The Cost of Cooperating: A Conversation With David Rand". Edge.
  4. ↑ "David G. Rand" (PDF) (CV). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-03-02. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  5. ↑ "About". David Rand. Retrieved 2025-11-21.
  6. ↑ "The Smart List 2012: 50 people who will change the world". Wired. 24 January 2012.
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