Ali Zarif is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies (TEIAS). His research interests include Experimental Economics, Behavioral Macroeconomics, and Large Language Models. He is also interested in AI, both as a tool for research and as an area of economic study.

His research has been presented at leading institutions including the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve Board, the International Monetary Fund, Google, Amazon, Stanford University Digital Economy Lab, and the Wharton Human-AI Research Center, as well as conferences such as the NBER Digital Economics and AI Meeting, the Annual AI in Finance Conference, and the ACM International Conference on AI in Finance, among others.

His research has been covered in news outlets like Bloomberg. He has recently published a paper titled “Generating inflation expectations with large language models” in the Journal of Monetary Economics.