[3] Puri is director of the Center for Financial Research at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
[5] Puri has a Ph.D. in finance from New York University and holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad.
[7] Puri's research focuses on empirical corporate finance, financial intermediation, banking, venture capital and entrepreneurship.
[11] Her paper "Deposit Inflows and Outflows in Failing Banks: The Role of Deposit Insurance"[12] (with Chris Martin and Alexander Brenden Ufier) has won the best paper award from Financial Asset Management association.
[14] Her research has been quoted in The New York Times,[15][16] Forbes,[17] CNBC,[18] Fox Business[19] and The Atlantic.