Dara Gold

Dara Gold is an adjunct mathematician at RAND. While full-time at RAND she worked on mathematical modeling and simulation for a variety of applications. Prior to joining RAND, she was a Professorial Lecturer in the math department at American University in Washington, D.C. In the summer of 2012 she worked at NASA (Goddard Space Flight Center) where she led simulation testing to model satellite collision probabilities for the March 2015 launch of the Magnetospheric Multi-Scale (MMS) satellites.

Since working full-time at RAND, Gold was a senior researcher with the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group (MGGG) at Tufts University, a math and computer science research center that studies U.S. redistricting and voting. She is currently doing private consulting in computational redistricting.

Gold holds a Ph.D. in math from Boston University, where she specialized in differential geometry. She has a B.S. in math from Georgetown University, and completed elective coursework in U.S. foreign policy and national security policy.