Dr. RAJENDRA P. SRIVASTAVA Ph.D. (Accounting), and Ph.D. (Physics)

He is Professor Emeritus of Accounting & Information Systems in the School of Business, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA where he has been for 24 years (August 1995 – July 2018), until his retirement, and served as the Director of EY Center for Auditing Research and Advanced Technology during 1995 – 2015. He holds a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Oklahoma, Norman (1982) and a Ph.D. in physics from Oregon State University, Corvallis (1972). Professor Srivastava has published over 110 academic articles in such prestigious journals as The Accounting Review, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Decision Support Systems, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Physics, Physical Review, and many other accounting, AI, and physics journals. He pioneered the application of Dempster-Shafer Theory of Belief Functions to audit judgment and was elected to serve on the Board of the Belief Function Application Society (BFAS) from 2010-2014. Dr. Srivastava has been a visiting professor at the following institutions during his academic career: The University of Sydney, Australia; Australian National University, Canberra; Deakin University, Geelong, Australia; University of Paris-Sorbonne, France; University of South Florida, Tampa FL., USA; University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL., USA; University of Florida, Gainesville, FL., USA.

Professor Srivastava received the 2017 Award for Notable Contribution to AIS Literature from the AIS Section of American Accounting Association, and 1996 Award for Notable Contribution to AI & Expert Systems Research in Accounting from the AI/Emerging Technology Section of the American Accounting Association. Recently, The Indian Accounting Association Research Foundation honored him with the “2020 Outstanding Research Award” for his dedicated service towards promotion of education and research the world over. He has served as an Editor of Journal of Information Systems of the IS Section of the American Accounting Association (AAA) and also as an Associate Editor for the following journals: Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting (JETA), International Journal of Accounting Information Systems (IJAIS), and Journal of Information Systems (JIS) in the past. He has been a member of the Editorial and Review Board of several journals including: The Accounting Review, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Indian Accounting Review, International Journal of Auditing, and International Journal of Accounting and Information Systems. Professor Srivastava served as the President/Chairman of the AI/Emerging Technology Section of American Accounting Association during 1994-95. In addition to academic publications, Professor Srivastava’s research has resulted into patentable ideas. FRAANK and SeekiNF are the two such technologies. In addition to the expertise in decision making under uncertainty using Dempster-Shafer theory of belief functions, Professor Srivastava has been involved in conducting research on XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) and has published several articles related to this topic. Based on his academic achievements, India International Friendship Society, New Delhi, India, awarded him “Glory of India Award” in 2010. In October 2017, Innovation and Collaboration Division of The University of Kansas awarded him “2017 Baxendale Innovation Award” for the outstanding research, innovation, and contributions to commercialization of KU technology