Professor, University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, California

Academic Experiance

2002 – Present
Professor, Courtesy Appointment in Data Sciences and Operations, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

1997 – Present
Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

1990 – 1997
Associate Professor, with tenure, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

1985 – 1990
Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

1984 – 1985
Instructor, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio

Editorships and Editorial Boards

• Editor, The Accounting Review, in Accounting Information Systems, June 2023.

• Editor (Founder), Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management (1992 – 2003, 2009 – to-date), Indexed by the Web of Science, Emerging Sources Citation Index.  Granted an Impact Factor June 2023, of 2.9 with a 5 year of 4.2. As of June 4, 2022, Citescore of 8.8 was ranked 11/299 in Finance and 12/216 in General Business, Management and Accounting.  

• Senior Editor of Information Systems and E-Business Management – Impact Factor 3.976 (2008 to-date) and Knowledge and Information Systems – Impact Factor 4.35 (2002 – to-date). 

• Associate Editor of Enterprise Information Systems – Impact Factor 4.35 (2015 – to-date), Communications of the Association of Information Systems, (2018 – to-date).

• Member of Editorial Boards: Enterprise Information Systems – Impact Factor of 4.35 (2006 to-date), Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal (1990 to-date - Impact Factor 6.954); Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering (2007-to-date – Impact Factor 2.587); International Journal of Accounting Information Systems (2001 to-date – Impact factor 4.4); Journal of Information Systems (AAA) (1991 to-date);, (2002 – to-date); International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (2005- to-date), Advances in Business and Management Forecasting (2008 – to-date), Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting (AAA), (2012 – to-date), Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction (2017 – to-date), 

• Founding Editor and former editor of The Expert Systems Review in Business and Accounting, 1988 1990, International Journal of Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management, formerly known as Expert Systems Review (in Business and Accounting), now published by John Wiley & Co., 1992 - 2003.

• Former Editor of IEEE Intelligent Systems, January 1997 – December 2000, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting (AAA) - American Accounting Association - June 2008 – December 2011).  

• Formerly Associate Editor of IEEE Expert, July 1995 - January 1997. Associate Editor of Journal of Emerging Technologies (2002 – 2008), American Accounting Association Section AI and ET. 

• Former Editor, Journal of Organizational and Electronic Commerce, (September 2018 – to-December 2021).  Indexed by SSCI / Web of Science.  2020 Impact factor – 2.571.  13.5% Acceptance Rate.  45,000 annual downloads.

• Formerly Member of Advisory Board: IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2005 – 2018. (Impact factor 2.374 on September 11, 2017). Formerly Editorial Advisory Board, Decision Support Systems (2014 – 2021) (Impact factor 3.222 on September 11, 2017).

• Formerly a member of Editorial Boards: Accounting, Management and Information Technologies (through December 2000); Decision Sciences, (2002 – 2004); Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (2001 – 2006, Associate Editor); European Journal of Information Systems (1998 - 2001, Associate Editor); International Journal of Computer and Engineering Management; IEEE Intelligent Systems (2001 to 2005); and Information Systems and E-Business Management (2002-2008). International Journal of Decision Support Technology (2008 - 2015); Information Technology and Management (1999-2019); Applications of Management Science;

Research Awards and Honors

• Notable Contribution to the Literature Award, 2024, Accounting Information Systems Section of the American Accounting Association, for “The ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence Chatbot”

• “Blockchain: Trouble in the Enterprise?”, was nominated for Best Paper at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), December 2023.

• Elected as a Senior Member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), January 2023. https://aaai.org/about-aaai/aaai-awards/aaai-senior-member-status/ 

• Research Fulbright Award to France for Academic Year 2021 – 2022, in Computer Science, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence. Fulbright U.S. Scholar • Daniel O'Leary • The Fulbright Program (fulbrightbadges.org)

• Outstanding Researcher Award 2022 – Strategic and Emerging Technologies Section of the AAA, "For Outstanding Research in the Field of Strategic and Emerging Technologies."

• Best paper in the Journal of Information Systems (American Accounting Association –Accounting Information Systems), January 2022, the paper with the greatest impact or potential impact on accounting information systems research, among papers published for the time period 2017-2019.

• Paul Gray Award for the “Most Thought-Provoking Paper” in 2020, Association for Information Systems (AIS), 2020, March 2021.  (With Veda Storey)

• AIS Distinguished Member, Association for Information Systems (AIS), December 2019.  

• Outstanding Author Contribution - 2017 “Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence.”

• KPMG "Preferred Academic Researcher", KPMG, Research, No. (March 22, 2016 - February 11, 2017). “Grant Received: Data and Analytics: An Analysis of Non-Traditional Information for Predictive Analytics”

• Outstanding Researcher Award 2016 – Strategic and Emerging Technologies Section of the AAA, "For Outstanding Line of ERP Research in the Field of Strategic and Emerging Technologies."

• Notable Contribution to the Literature, 2014, American Accounting Association Accounting Information Systems Section, Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

• Notable Contribution to the Literature 1995, AI/ES Section of the American Accounting Association.

• Notable Contribution to the Literature, 1991, AAA - Information Systems/Management Advisory Services.

Professor of Accounting,
University of Padova, Padova(Italy)

Academic Experiance

2024 – Present
Professor of Accounting, University of Padova, Padova (Italy)

2019 – 2024
Professor of Accounting, University of Bristol, Bristol (UK) 

2017 – 2019
Professor of Accounting, University of Exeter Business School, Exeter (UK)[Director of Research, Accounting & Finance (Sept 2017 - June 2019); Director of the Firms Market and Value Research Cluster (Jan 2016 - June 2019)]

2013 – 2017
Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Exeter Business School, Exeter (UK)

2006 – 2015
Assistant Professor of Accounting, Department of Economics and Management, University of Padova (Italy) [on leave between May 2013 and September 2015]

Editorial Ativities

• Associate Editor of European Accounting Review (2024- present)

• Associate Editor of Accounting and Business Research (2021- present)

• Editor of Accounting Forum (2018 - 2023)

• Editor-in-Chief EAA Accounting Resources Centre (2017 - 2020)

• Associate Editor of Accounting and the Public Interest (2017 - 2020)

• Associate Editor of Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal (2014 – 2018)

• Guest editor for the special issue on "Corporate GHG Emissions’ Estimation, Reporting, Accountability and Integrity", Journal of Business Ethics (with T. Busch, C. Cho, A. G. F. Hoepner, J.Rogelj) [call open until 30 Nov 2020]

• Guest editor for the special issue on “The Future of Carbon Accounting, Management & Policy”, Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal (with D. Gibassier, M. Cartel) [completed]

• Guest editor for the 2016 special issue on “Camouflaging of corporate (un)sustainability”, Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal (with S. Pilonato, F. Ricceri and R.W. Roberts) [completed]

• Guest editor for the 2013 special issue on “Social and Environmental Accounting and Accountability”, Financial Reporting (with C. Cho and E. Costa)

Member of the Editorial Board

• Accounting Forum (2024 – present)

• British Accounting Review (2022 – present)

• Journal of Accounting and Public Policy (2022 – present)

• Accounting in Europe (2021 – present)

• Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal (2020 – present)

• Journal of Business Ethics (2018 – present) 

• Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal (2018 – present)

• Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management (2016 – present)

• Critical Perspectives on Accounting (2015 – present)

• Social and Environmental Accountability Journal (2015 – present)