M.P.A., University of Southern California; B.Ec. in finance, Renmin University of China
Weilong (David) Kong is an assistant policy researcher at RAND and a Ph.D. candidate at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Prior to joining Pardee RAND, he was a senior public administrative analyst at the Luskin Center for Innovation at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he conducted regional economic and environmental impact analyses of California climate change mitigation and energy efficiency policies.
Kong has an M.P.A. from University of Southern California and a B.Ec. in Finance from Renmin University of China. His research interests focus on complex resource allocation problems featuring deep uncertainty, competition/confrontation and adaptive environment, and policy evaluation and optimization methods including robust decision making, multi-agent reinforcement learning, and game theory. His current research topics include critical infrastructure protection and planning, economic impact of clean energy and climate policies, combating social media disinformation in the context of Great Power Competition.
