David Gold
Assistant Professor at Utrecht University
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolDavid Gold is an Assistant Professor in Physical Geography at Utrecht University who applies multiobjective optimization, high-performance computing, and AI to tackle global water scarcity and climate adaptation challenges. With a PhD from Cornell (2022) and roughly a decade of experience spanning academic research and hands-on engineering at USDA-NRCS, he bridges rigorous computational methods with practical water-resource design and implementation. His current work models drought vulnerability in the Colorado River Basin, operationalizes equity in urban water planning in Brazil, and explores Direct Potable Reuse, often coupling interactive visual analytics with decision-focused modeling. Known for integrating scalable computation with stakeholder-facing tools, he brings both systems-level thinking and field-tested engineering judgment to water systems problems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Environmental and Water Resources Systems Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Environmental and Water Resources Systems Engineering at Cornell UniversityBS, Civil Engineering, BS, Civil Engineering at Lafayette College
Github Skills (21)
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power-systems8
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decision-making3
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machine-learning2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
davidfgold/Gold_et_al-Power-and-pathways
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
Code and data for Gold et al. (in review)
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year
goldreviewin-review
davidfgold/Gold-etal_2024_EarthsFuture
Feb 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 31 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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