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William Michael Rand Curriculum Vitae November 2015 CONTACT INFORMATION Robert H. Smith School of Business 3457 Van Munching Hall University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA 20742-1815 Telephone: 1-301-405-7229 Cell: 1-734-717-7965 E-mail: wrand@ CURRENT AFFILIATIONS University of Maryland Director, Center for Complexity in Business, 2011-present Assistant Professor of Marketing, 2008-present Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computational Studies, 2011-present Affiliate Assistant Professor of Decision, Operations, and Information Technology, 2008-present Affiliate Assistant Professor of Computer Science, 2008-present Affiliate Faculty of Applied Mathematics, Statistics, and Scientific Computation, 2010-present Northwestern University Affiliate Faculty of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), 2014-present EDUCATION Ph.D.: Computer Science, University of Michigan, Co-Chairs John Holland and Rick Riolo, “Controlled Observations of the Genetic Algorithm in a Changing Environment: Case Studies using the Shaky Ladder Hyperplane-Defined Functions” 2005 M.S.: Computer Science, University of Michigan, 2001 Certificate of Study in Complex Systems, University of Michigan 2001 B.S.: Computer Science (with Honors), Michigan State University, 1999 B.A.: Philosophy (with Honors), Michigan State University, 1999 PAST PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Northwestern University, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Fall of 2005 to Summer of 2008 University of Michigan, Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) and the School of Natural Resources and the Environment (SNRE), Research A