Chi-Chun Chou
California State University, Monterey Bay
AIS New Scholars Consortium Panelist

Dr. Chi-Chun Chou is currently a Full Professor in the College of Business at California State University, Monterey Bay. He has academic preparations in both computer science and accounting. Leveraging on his academic preparation, he has expanded the Accounting Information Systems (AIS) area to include Blockchain, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Robotic Process Automation, eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), and Continuous Reporting/Auditing. He has published academic articles using different technologies in the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Journal of Information Systems (JIS), Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, etc. In 2019, because of his leading role in the accounting blockchain research, he was invited by the Journal of Information Systems (JIS) to serve as one of the Guest Editors for a special issue on Blockchain.

Severin Grabski
Michigan State University
AIS New Scholars Consortium Mentor and Panelist

Dr. Severin Grabski is a Professor in the Department of Accounting & Information Systems, the Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University. He was the faculty director for MS-Business Analytics program (2017-2021) in the Broad College. Prior to that he was Senior Faculty Advisor for Instructional Technology to the CIO at Michigan State University (2006-2017). In addition to his appointment at Michigan State University, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Tasmania in 1999. Dr. Grabski received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University (1983), and M.B.A. from Marquette University (1977) and is a Certified Management Accountant.

Dr. Grabski has numerous publications in academic journals including MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, The Journal of Information Systems, Information Technology & People, Cornell Quarterly, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, and the Journal of Accounting Literature. He has also contributed chapters for various books including Researching Accounting as an Information Systems Discipline, Enterprise Systems: ERP, Implementation and Effectiveness, and Expert Systems in Developing Countries: Practice and Promise. He was a keynote speaker at the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Systems, Accounting and Logistics (Kefalonia, Greece), and also at the 9th International Symposium on Accounting Information Systems (Melbourne) and has presented numerous papers at other academic conferences.

Professor Grabski is currently co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Information Systems and has served as an ad hoc reviewer for numerous journals including MIS Quarterly, The Accounting Review, Decision Sciences, Accounting Horizons, DATA BASE, Computing Surveys, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, Journal of Database Management, and Accounting Forum. He has been active in the American Accounting Association and is Past-President of both the Information Systems (IS), and Artificial Intelligence/Emerging Technologies (now known as Strategic and Emerging Technologies - SET) Sections of the American Accounting Association. He has received Outstanding Researcher and also an Outstanding Educator awards from the SET Section and has received a Notable Contribution to the Literature award from the IS Section. He was a recipient of the 2018 Teaching Innovation Award from the American Tax Association of the American Accounting Association. Dr. Grabski’s research interest/areas of expertise are in the semantic modeling of accounting information systems and enterprise resource planning systems, and the evaluation of the impact of both cloud computing and ERP systems on organizations and organizational performance. His current research interests include the implication of blockchain for accounting and auditing. Professor Grabski has taught a variety of classes. On the undergraduate level, he taught the Accounting Information Systems, and Computer Auditing. He is currently teaching graduate-level courses on Enterprise Systems and Accounting Analytics.

Joy Gray
Bentley University
AIS New Scholars Consortium Panelist

Joy Gray serves as Senior Lecturer and Vice Chair in the Department of Accountancy at Bentley University. Her teaching experience includes courses in IT Audit, Accounting Information Systems, Internal Audit, Financial Audit, Forensic Accounting, and Introductory Financial/Managerial Accounting. She received the 2020 George Krull/Grant Thornton Innovation in Teaching award from the AICPA (with co-authors) for a series of short cybersecurity cases, a 2020 Innovation in Teaching award from Bentley University for a data analytics project, and a 2019 PriceWaterhouseCoopers Inquiry Grant (with corecipient) for development of a capstone course for Bentley’s MS in Accounting Analytics program. She has also developed seminars for the Institute of Internal Auditors and Second Start of New Hampshire.

Joy holds a PhD in Accountancy from Bentley University, an MS in Business Education from Southern New Hampshire University, and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Murray State University. She is a Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Information Systems Auditor, and Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer. Prior to her academic roles, Joy’s held a variety of accounting, internal audit, and finance roles at OSRAM Sylvania, Lockheed Martin, and GE.

She serves as co-chair of the American Accounting Association’s Accounting Information Systems Section Education Committee, serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Greater Boston Chapter of the IIA, served on the Boston school committee’s task force to establish an internal audit function for the Boston Public Schools, and currently serves as a STEM signing day mentor for Project Exploration through the OneinTech Foundation of ISACA.

Joy’s research interests are in the areas of IT audit, internal audit, and the integration of technology into accounting classrooms.

Diane Janvrin
Iowa State University
AIS New Scholars Consortium Mentor and Panelist

Dr. Diane Janvrin holds the William Varner Professorship of Accounting at the Debbie and Jerry Ivy College of Business at Iowa State University. She earned her masters and PhD from the University of Iowa and B.A. from Central College in Pella, Iowa. She teaches and researches in accounting information systems, data analytics, and auditing. She has published in several AAA journals including Accounting Horizons, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Journal of Information Systems, Behavioral Issues in Accounting, and Issues in Accounting Education. She has served the AIS section in several roles including treasurer from 2010 to 2013, research committee 2013-2014, chair of AIS education committee 2016 to 2018, AIS education bootcamp coordinator May 2017 and May 2018, and social media task force. Further, she is an editor for Journal of Information SystemsJ and co-chaired JISC2015 and the special JIS issue on Implications of Cybersecurity on Accounting Information.

Lorraine Lee
University of North Carolina Wilmington
AIS New Scholars Consortium Panelist

Lorraine Lee, Ph.D., CPA, is the Cameron Distinguished Professor of Accounting at the Cameron School of Business, University of North Carolina Wilmington. She joined the faculty in 2008 where she has taught classes in IT Audit, databases, and accounting analytics. Her research interests include accounting information systems and the impact of emerging technologies in accounting. Her work has appeared in various journals, including Accounting, Organizations and Society, Journal of Information Systems, Behavioral Research in Accounting, and Issues in Accounting Education. In addition, she is currently the co-editor for the AIS Educator Journal.

Vernon J. Richardson
University of Arkansas
AIS New Scholars Consortium Mentor and Panelist

Vernon J. Richardson is Distinguished Professor of Accounting and the W. Glezen Chair in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. He received his BA, MAcc, and MBA from Brigham Young University and a PhD in accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He has taught at the University of Arkansas, Aarhus University, Baruch College, Brigham Young University, Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen, Baruch College, University of Kansas, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University and China Europe International Business School (Shanghai).

He was formerly editor at the Accounting Review and is currently an editor at Accounting Horizons. He also served as associate editor at MIS Quarterly, Journal of Information Systems and the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems. He has published articles in the Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Operations Management, and the Journal of Marketing.

Dr. Richardson has authored the very first two textbooks in accounting data analytics with McGraw Hill titled, “Data Analytics for Accounting” and “Introduction to Data Analytics for Accounting” (with coauthors Katie Terrell and Ryan Teeter). He has also published textbooks in accounting information systems and financial accounting also with McGraw Hill.

Donny Shimamoto
IntrapriseTechKnowlogies LLC
AIS New Scholars Consortium Panelist

Donny C. Shimamoto, CPA, CITP, CGMA, is the founder and managing director of IntrapriseTechKnowlogies LLC, an advisory-focused CPA firm focused on innovation acceleration and organizational development for small businesses, middle market organizations, and nonprofits. Donny is a recognized thought leader and educator in the fields of accounting technology, innovation, IT-related risk management (including cybsersecurity), and performance management.

Donny serves as a business transformation advisor and outsourced chief innovation officer for local & regional firms, finance departments, and internal audit departments. He helps with development of innovation roadmaps, risk assessments, development of IT-related advisory services, streamlining of internal firm/department operations, and increasing staff proficiency with IT tools supporting internal operations and accounting services delivery.

Donny also works with larger organizations as a trusted innovation advisor, facilitating digital transformation, innovation management, IT governance & planning, enterprise architecture, enterprise risk management, information architecture & assurance, business process improvement, financial planning & analysis, and performance improvement initiatives.

Donny is the current chair of the AICPA’s National Conference of Lawyers & CPAs. He’s also past chairman of the AICPA’s Information Management & Technology Assurance Executive Committee, Donny has been highly involved in several AICPA initiatives including development of an IT Competency Model, creation of the Digital Transformation module of the CGMA Finance Leadership Academy, and was on the Information Systems & Controls taskforce for the CPA Evolution initiative. Donny has also been involved in the authoring of guidance published by the AICPA on IT Considerations for Risk-Based Auditing and Enterprise Business Intelligence.

Donny is also a frequent speaker and educator on innovation strategies, business intelligence, business resilience, cybersecurity risk management, performance management, and emerging technologies at many states around the US and internationally. He is also a sought after author and interviewee as a subject matter expert with the distinct skill of making complex topics easier to understand by a “layperson”.

Miklos A. Vasarhelyi
The State University of Guanabara and Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
AIS New Scholars Consortium Panelist

Miklos A. Vasarhelyi [Ph.D in MIS (UCLA) MBA (MIT) and BS in Economics and Electrical Engineering (the State University of Guanabara and Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro)]. Professor Vasarhelyi is currently the KPMG Distinguished Professor of Accounting Information Systems and Director of the Rutgers Accounting Research Center (RARC) & Continuous Auditing and Reporting Laboratory (CARLAB) at Rutgers University. He has published more than 200 journal articles,20 books, and directed over 45 PhD theses. He is the editor of the Artificial Intelligence in Accounting and Auditing series and the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting.

Professor Vasarhelyi is credited with the original continuous audit application and as the leading researcher in this field. The CAR Lab’s projects include among others AICPA’s Radar, Siemens, KPMG, P&G, AICPA, CA Technologies, and Itau-Unibanco. Prof. Vasarhelyi has been awarded Notable contributions to the literature by the AAA in 2021, the Outstanding Educator of the year by the AAA in 2014, AICPA distinguished scholar in 2018, and the Wasserman award by ISACA in 2013.

Mi (Jamie) Zhou
Virginia Commonwealth University
AIS New Scholars Consortium Panelist

Mi (Jamie) Zhou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Accounting at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research interests include Financial Accounting, Big Data Analytics, Corporate Disclosures, and Capital Markets. Dr. Zhou’s research has appeared in many accounting and information systems journals, including Journal of the American Taxation Association, Journal of Information Systems, Computers in Human Behavior, Information Systems Frontiers, and so on. Dr. Zhou received his doctoral degree in Accounting from Virginia Tech and master degrees in Accounting and Computer Science from UNC Charlotte. Dr. Zhou started his career with IBM and AmerisourceBergen Corporation as a software engineer. He also worked as a consultant/Senior Consultant at Deloitte for three years.