Ann Backof is a 2003 graduate of the University of Virginia. After graduation, she worked in the Banking and Capital Markets group of PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York City. Ann returned to UVa prior to joining the PhD program to obtain a MS in Accounting. Her research area is behavioral audit.

Jeremy Griffin received his Bachelor of Accountancy degree from the University of Mississippi in 1999, and his Master of Science in Accountancy degree from the University of Notre Dame in 2000. Prior to joining the PhD program, he worked at BorgWarner, Inc. and Deloitte & Touche, LLP. His research and teaching interests include judgment and decision making topics in auditing and managerial accounting. He is currently working on his dissertation, in which he examines auditors' materiality decisions.

Mary Im is a 2004 graduate of The Ohio State University. Prior to joining the PhD program, she earned MBA from Claremont Graduate University. Her research interest is earnings management by non-profit organizations. She is currently working on her dissertation, which explores the relationship between monitoring and agency costs in NPOs.

Cory Johnson received his undergraduate and MAcc degrees from Brigham Young University in 2003. Prior to joining the doctoral program, he was a tax manager at TEKELEC in Morrisville, North Carolina, and a senior tax consultant in the Raleigh, North Carolina office of Deloitte. His research area is taxation.

David Koo received a Bachelor of Economics degree from Korea University in 2001 and a MAcc degree from the J.M. Tull School of Accounting at the University of Georgia in 2008. Prior to joining the MAcc program, he was an analyst for the Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation in Seoul, Korea. His research area is financial accounting.

Jason Matthews is a 2000 graduate of Missouri State University with a BS in Finance and a 2005 graduate of NC State University with a Master of Accounting. Prior to joining the PhD program, Jason was a lecturer at NC State University teaching Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting and Accounting Information Systems. Before that, he was the Chief Financial Officer of United Coal, a $275 million energy firm headquartered in Bristol, VA. His research area is empirical audit.

Wayne Nesbitt is a 2008 graduate of the MBA program in the Terry College at the University of Georgia, where he majored in finance and operations management. He worked for Carreras Limited, a Jamaican firm, prior to joining the MBA program. His research area is taxation.

Emily Semrau received her BBA in Accounting and MS in Finance from Texas A&M University in 2006. Prior to joining the Ph.D. program, she was an auditor in KPMG's Dallas office. Emily is an ADS Scholar, with a research interest in behavioral audit.

Julia Yu holds a BBA in Accounting from Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University and a Master of Science in Economics from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is currently working on her dissertation, which examines the association between changes in mandatory disclosure regulations and voluntary disclosure policies.