Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND, and Ph.D. Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School
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David DeSmet (he/him/his) is an assistant policy researcher at RAND and a doctoral fellow at the Pardee RAND Graduate School.
His research projects at RAND have included sustainable aviation fuel siting, civil infrastructure resilience, the history and development of AI, logistics optimization, legal instruments of geoengineering, community response to and cascading effects of disasters, and organizational analysis, among others.
His doctoral research focuses on solar energy incentives and relative effectiveness between types of incentives. He received his M.S. in environmental engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and his B.S. in materials science and engineering from University of California, Berkeley. He has previously worked with the Army Corps of Engineers within the Risk and Decision Science team.
M.Phil. in policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; M.S. in environmental engineering, Carnegie Mellon University; B.S. in materials science and engineering, University of California, Berkeley
