Jonathan Cohen is an engineer at RAND who specializes in operations research, critical infrastructure protection, and water resources management. At RAND, Cohen's work has covered a wide range of topics, including personnel and resource management, building codes, data center siting, force structure and logistics, water supply risks, and infrastructure management. He previously worked as a hydrologic engineer for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, where he specialized in optimizing reservoir operations and river restoration. His dissertation work at UC Davis focused on developing evolutionary algorithms used to generate infrastructure sequencing plans in water resources systems.
Cohen holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Davis and a B.S. in Engineering from Swarthmore College.
B.S. in engineering, Swarthmore College; M.S. in civil & environmental eng, University of California-Davis; Ph.D. in civil & environmental eng, University of California-Davis
