Rahul Bhui

Rahul Bhui, Class of 1958 Career Development Assistant Professor and assistant professor of Marketing, has received the 2024 Early Career Award from the Society for NeuroEconomics (SNE). This award recognizes early-career scholars (within 10 years of receiving their PhD) for outstanding contributions to the field of Neuroeconomics, related to “understanding the neural basis of decision making or the impact of this knowledge on formal understanding of decision behavior.”

The award announcement notes that Bhui “develops and tests computational models that capture the mental algorithms behind our decisions … to reveal the unifying principles that underlie both rationality and irrationality, and to investigate their implications for management and policy.”

The award was presented in October at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the SNE in Cascais, Portugal.

Rahul Bhui, Class of 1958 Career Development Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Marketing, has won the 2024 Vernon L. Smith Excellence Award in Experimental Finance from the Society for Experimental Finance. This annual award recognizes path-breaking research deemed to be "the best article published in [the year prior] using the ‘Experimental Finance’ method” across all peer-reviewed journals. 

The award recognizes Bhui’s “important contribution to categorical thinking, giving … a clearer view of the drivers and consequences of inattention.” His winning paper, “Attention Constraints and Learning in Categories” (Management Science, 69(9):5394-5404, Sept. 2023), was co-authored with Peiran Jiao (Maastricht University). An MIT Sloan “Ideas Made to Matter” article also provides more information on the paper.

Rahul Bhui, Assistant Professor of Marketing, and Jackson G. Lu, Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies (WOS), have both been named APS (Association for Psychological Science) Rising Stars. This designation “is presented to outstanding APS members in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD”—“researchers whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions.”  This is one of the top honors for junior psychologists (selected from across all fields of psychology—cognitive, clinical, developmental, social, etc.).

The APS Rising Stars were announced last month.