Bio: 

Professor Emel Filiz-Ozbay received her Ph.D. with distinction from Columbia University in 2007 and joined the faculty at the University of Maryland in the same year. Her research interests include experimental and behavioral economics, market design, and contract theory. Her work focuses on incentives, their interaction with behavioral biases, and welfare-enhancing choice architecture. More recently, her research has expanded to study the economic implications of artificial intelligence and large language models.

She has published her research in leading economics journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Management Science, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Economic Theory, and Games and Economic Behavior.

She currently serves as an Associate Editor at Management Science and Games and Economic Behavior. She has served as Co-Editor at Economic Inquiry and as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Mathematical Social Sciences. At the University of Maryland’s Department of Economics, she teaches Behavioral and Experimental Economics and Microeconomic Theory at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.