Professor Emel Filiz-Ozbay received her PhD with distinction from Columbia University in 2007 and joined the University of Maryland faculty in the same year. Her fields of interest are Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Market Design, and Contract Theory. She studies incentives, how they relate to the behavioral biases of agents, and welfare-enhancing choice architecture. She has published her research in leading economics journals including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Management Science, Journal of European Economic Association, and Journal of Economic Theory. She served as a Co-Editor at Economic Inquiry and Co-Editor-in-Chief at Mathematical Social Sciences and she is currently an Associate Editor at Management Science. She teaches Behavioral and Experimental Economics and Microeconomic Theory at graduate and undergraduate levels at the UMD.