Rajendra P Srivastava

Dr. Rajendra P. Srivastava is Professor Emeritus of Accounting & Information Systems in the School of Business, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA. He started his career as an Assistant Professor of Physics at BITS, Pilani, India, in 1963, right after graduating from the University of Gorakhpur, UP, India. He has been the EY Professor in the School of Business, University of Kansas, 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 115 academic articles and several articles still in progress and under submission even after retirement for more than five years. His publications have appeared in such prestigious journals as The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 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. Currently, few of the big accounting firms are in contact with Professor Srivastava to use some of his work on Dempster-Shafer Theory of Belief Function applied to auditing to develop Expert System for audit judgment.

Dr. 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. Based on his academic achievements, India International Friendship Society, New Delhi, India, awarded him “Glory of India Award” in 2010.  In addition, in February 2021, Dr. Srivastava was inducted into the Prestigious Marquis Who's Who Biographical Registry as Marquis Who’s Who in America, and Marquis Who’s Who in the World (http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release-service/479463).

Dr. Srivastava 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. Dr. Srivastava served as the President/Chairman of the AI/Emerging Technology Section of the American Accounting Association during 1994-95. Dr. Srivastava has enjoyed traveling the world as a visiting professor and distinguished speaker at various prestigious institutions in such countries as Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Slovenia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, and UK.

In addition to academic publications, Professor Srivastava’s research has resulted into patentable ideas. FRAANK and SeekiNF are the two such technologies (https://seekedgar.com). In particular, SeekiNF technology is providing a unique tool to academics all over the world to search for financial and non-financial information from the SEC Filings for their research, which is usually not available from any other source. Here is what Professor Mike Minnis of The University of Chicago says about this: “I use SeekEdgar for both research and teaching – it is an excellent textual analysis tool for all sorts of SEC documents. Very cool tool and ….” 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 and organized annual conferences during 2003 – 2014 at The University of Kansas. 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.