Dr. Reza Kheirandish

Professor of Economics

Office: College of Business T-237
Accounting, Economics, and Finance
College of Business
rkheiran@clayton.edu

Biography

Reza Kheirandish is a Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Accounting, Economics, and Finance at Clayton State University. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Economics from Virginia Tech and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering (Control Systems) from Sharif University of Technology.
Reza’s research has been published in leading journals, and he has contributed several chapters to two handbooks on behavioral economics. He has actively participated in major conferences and conducted research visits to the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany. Previously, he served as Director of CREST at CSU.
He has held leadership roles in professional organization, including SEDSI and SEINFORMS and is currently serving as the Past-President of SAM since July 2025. And has served as program chair or co-chair for eight conferences. He is also a board member of multiple academic organizations and serves on the Editorial Board of the Review of Behavioral Economics. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Service Award from SEINFORMS in 2021 and Distinguished Service Award from SEDSI in 2024.

Education

Ph D, Economics, Virginia Tech, 2008

MA, Economics, Virginia Tech, 2000

BSc, Electrical Engineering (Control Systems), Sharif University of Technology, 1994

Awards and Honors

SEDSI Distinguished Service Award, Southeast Decision Sciences Institute, Award, 2024

Outstanding Service Award, Southeastern Chapter of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Award, 2021

Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, Society for Advancement of Management (SAM), Award, 2025

Meritorious 2017 Professor of the Year Award, College of Business, Award, 2018

Honor Society Inductee, Beta Gamma Sigma international honor society, Honor, 2009

Intellectual Contributions

Reza Kheirandish, Shabnam Mousavi, Herbert Simon, Innovation, and Heuristics, Mind and Society – November 2018

Shabnam Mousavi, Reza Kheirandish, Policy making with behavioral insight, Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy – 2017

Shabnam Mousavi, Gerd Gigerenzer, Reza Kheirandish, Rethinking behavioral economics through fast-and-frugal heuristics, Routledge – August 2016

Rosemarie Nagel Nagel, Anna Bayona, Reza Kheirandish, Shabnam Mousavi, Reinhard Selten, the dualist, Routledge – August 2016

Shabnam Mousavi, Reza Kheirandish, Behind and beyond a shared definition of ecological rationality: A functional view of heuristics, Journal of Business Research – August 2014

Contracts, Grants, and Sponsored Research

Reza Kheirandish, Jesse Zinn, H Lari Arjomand, Nikki M. Finlay, Gay Solomon, Affordable Learning Textbook Transformation , University System of Georgia, State, 25800, Funded – January 2015 to May 2016

Reza Kheirandish, Ali Dadpay, Measuring the Economic Impact of Fayette County School System, Fayette County Board of Education , Local, 6750, Funded – July 2012 to February 2013

Nikki M. Finlay, Reza Kheirandish, Michael V. Tidwell, CREST, Bank of America, Private, 25000, Funded – July 1 2009 to June 30 2010

Service to the University & University System of Georgia

University, Faculty Development Committee, Committee Member – August 2007 to Present

University, ITC, Committee Member – Fall 2015 to Present

Service to the Profession

Program Organizer, SEDSI, Regional – March 2016 to February 2017

Program Organizer, SABE/IAREP/ICABEEP Joint Conference, International – Spring 2012 to Summer 2013

Program Organizer, SEINFORMS, Regional – November 2010 to October 2011

Service to the Community

Board Member, Connecting Clayton, Local – Fall 2009 to Fall 2017