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Maryam Farboodi is an Associate Professor in the Finance area at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is an applied theorist whose research focuses on the economics of big data applications in finance and macroeconomics. Farboodi has developed methodologies to estimate the value of data and studies intermediation, network formation among financial institutions, and spillovers in the real economy. Her work includes analyses of information frictions and their impact on local and global economic cycles, particularly in the context of credit market structures. During her academic career, she has worked on understanding policies associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Farboodi earned her PhD in financial economics jointly from the Department of Economics and the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago in 2014. She has received several honors, including the Elaine Bennett Research Prize for her contributions to the field and a Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for her innovative and impactful research.