Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi

Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi joined the Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences Department at the Kellogg School of Management in 2017. Prior to joining Kellogg, he was the Daniel W. Stanton Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. His research focuses on the implications of network economies for information aggregation, business cycle fluctuations, and financial stability.

Education

• PhD, 2009, Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
• MA, 2008, Economics, University of Pennsylvania
• MSE, 2006, Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
• Bsc, 2004, Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology

Academic Positions

• Professor, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2019-present
• Associate Professor, Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2017-2019
• Daniel W. Stanton Associate Professor of Business, Columbia University, Columbia University, 2015-2017
• Associate Professor, Columbia Business School, Columbia University, 2015-2015
• Assistant Professor, Columbia Business School, Columbia University, 2011-2015

Awards

• Excellence in Refereeing Award for the American Economic Review, American Economic Association
• Pew Presidential Prize, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
• International Economic Review Fellowship, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2007-2008
• Judith Rodin Fellowship, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 2008-2009
• Best Student Paper Award Finalist, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
• Joseph, D'16 and Rosaline Wolf Award for Best Dissertation, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
• Outstanding Referee Award, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control