Edward Geist
Senior Policy Researcher at RAND
Santa Monica, California, United States
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Top SchoolEdward Geist is a senior policy researcher at RAND with a decade of expertise at the intersection of nuclear security, Russian affairs, and cold-war history. He is the author of Armageddon Insurance: Civil Defense in the United States and Soviet Union, 1945–1991, and brings deep archival and doctrinal knowledge to contemporary policy analysis. Trained as a Soviet historian (PhD, UNC), he has held fellowships in major security centers and translates historical insight into practical assessments of nuclear doctrine and risk. He also develops technical tools—authoring the glasstone Python library on nuclear weapons effects—bridging rigorous scholarship with reproducible, open research methods. Based in Santa Monica, he combines scholarly depth with policy-facing deliverables that inform defense and strategic decisionmakers.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), History, Bachelor of Arts (BA), History at The College of William and MaryDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Soviet History, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Soviet History at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, Russian, Ukrainian
Github Skills (30)
clozure-cl10
linux10
ruby10
ccl10
common-lisp9
homebrew9
lisp9
macos9
package-manager9
compile8
gfortran7
clasp7
lisp-interpreter7
compiler6
science5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
GOFAI/cl-tesseract
Oct 2015 - Nov 2017
Common Lisp bindings for the Tesseract OCR library.
Contributions:1 review, 2 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 1 month
GOFAI/dungeon
Dec 2015 - May 2020
the classic text adventure updated to compile using gfortran
Contributions:3 releases, 5 commits, 3 PRs in 4 years 6 months
updatedtext-adventurecompilegfortran
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