She received her B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University, and holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA, together with a second Ph.D. in Marketing from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to joining UCSD, she was an assistant professor in the Marketing Unit at the Harvard Business School, with an affiliation to the Harvard Center for Brain Science. Dr. Karmarkar’s research explores how people integrate information to make meaningful economic decisions, and she examines the implications of these findings in domains such as consumer behavior and cybersecurity.