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Faculty Member, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Other Affiliations: Brown University, Engineering
MIT, Sloan School of Management
University of Michigan, Psychology

Professor of Behavioral Science

Thesis Title: Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Revealing, Characterizing, and Modeling Individual Differences in the Iowa Gambling Task

About

I am a professor of Behavioral Science at IE University (Segovia) and IE Business School (Madrid). I am also serving as Dean of IE’s School of Social & Behavioral Science

Research.  I am interested in the behavioral bases of human judgment and decision making with a focus on understanding biases and errors in decision making under risk and uncertainty. My recent work focused on individual differences in behavioral judgment and learning in a well-known gambling task. At the present time I pursuing work investigating behavioral biases in judgmental forecasting and behavioral methods that reduce confirmation bias through training.

Teaching.  I have been actively involved in teaching from the outset of academic career. I have been fortunate to have had the opportunity to teach in a number of areas including management, cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, neuropsychology, and artificial intelligence. The core of my teaching focuses on helping students understand and address behavioral biases in judgement and decision making. I am currently leading an effort to develop Active Learning technologies that shift the learning paradigm from lectures and textbooks to “learning by experiencing”. One result of this initiative is the IExperiments Platform that enables students to test their judgment and decision making, with the data being immediately available to the professor for presentation in the classroom.

Experience.  Prior to pursuing an academic career, I was a founder and senior manager in two technology-based startups in New York City (Brainstorm Interactive, and HR One), and I served as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in Chicago.

Education.  I completed interdiscplinary doctoral studies at the University of Michigan under the guidance of Dr. Thad Polk. My doctoral work combined Psychology (Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience) and Computer Science (Intelligent Systems). I also hold Masters degrees in Management (M.I.T. Sloan) and in Technology Policy (M.I.T. TPP) and a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering (Brown University).

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