Bess Djavadi is a Ph.D. student at the RAND School of Public Policy and an assistant policy researcher at RAND. Her research interests and RAND work portfolio include nuclear deterrence, U.S. foreign policy, and emerging technologies. Prior to joining RAND, she worked at RTX as a multidisciplined engineer and at USC Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Threats and Emergencies (CREATE) modeling economic impacts of nuclear detonation, population mobility following WMD attacks, and population return following natural and manmade disasters.
Djavadi earned her M.S. in public policy and data science at the University of Southern California (USC) and her B.S. in statistics and data science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Education
M.S. in public policy data science, University of Southern California; B.S. in statistics and data science, University of California, Santa Barbara
Concurrent Non-RAND Positions
Research Assistant, USC Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Threats and Emergencies