Dr. Mahmoudi joined the faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Fall 2019. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from University of Nevada, Reno in 2017 with research focused on applied macroeconomics. She extended her research areas to economic growth and development, particularly after starting to work as a researcher with the Nevada State Controller’s Office. In addition, she turned her focus to topics in behavioral and experimental economics by designing economic experiments to analyze the bounded rationality concept and decision-making under ambiguity. In her future research, she intends to design and implement laboratory experiments as a means of testing individual decision-making behavior in financial markets.