I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at the College of Business at the University of Texas at Arlington. Before joining UTA, I served as an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Missouri- Columbia. 

I hold a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and a Master of Science in Financial Engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic). I hold a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Miami.

My primary areas of research are behavioral finance and empirical asset pricing, focusing on the behavioral determinants of financial decision-making. Below, you may find a list of my publications and current working papers. For more information about each paper, please click on its title.