Rate My Professor Miklos Vasarhelyi

Professor Miklos Vasarhelyi holds the position of KPMG Distinguished Professor of Accounting Information Systems within the Business & Economics faculty at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Newark. He directs the Rutgers Accounting Research Center (RARC) and the Continuous Auditing & Reporting Laboratory (CAR Lab), pioneering the original continuous audit application and leading research in continuous auditing and reporting. Vasarhelyi obtained his Ph.D. in Accounting Information Systems from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1973, with minors in Finance and Computer Methods; his dissertation was "Man Machine Planning Systems: A Behavioral Examination of Interactive Decision Making." He also holds an M.S. in Management (Finance emphasis) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Alfred P. Sloan School of Management in 1969, and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and in Economics from the State University of Guanabara, both in 1966.

Throughout his career, Vasarhelyi has held faculty positions at Rutgers University since 1987, including as Area Chair and Professor; previously, he was Associate Professor and Director of the Accounting Research Center at Columbia University Graduate School of Business (1978-1987), and Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California (1974-1978). He has served as a consulting technical manager at AT&T Bell Laboratories since 1988 and taught executive programs for organizations including GE, Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, Baxter, Volvo, Siemens, Chase Bank, and AT&T. His research focuses on continuous auditing, audit analytics, artificial intelligence in accounting and auditing, data visualization, process mining, and deep learning applications to audit decision-making. Vasarhelyi has authored or edited over 20 books, such as "Continuous Auditing: Theory and Application" (2018, Emerald Publishing), "Audit Analytics in the Financial Industry" (2019, Emerald), "Audit Analytics and Continuous Audit" (2015, AICPA), and the "Artificial Intelligence in Accounting and Auditing" series (Vols. 1-6, Markus Wiener Publishers, 1989-2005), as well as more than 200 journal articles. He edits the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting and the Artificial Intelligence in Accounting and Auditing series. Notable awards include the American Accounting Association's Outstanding Accounting Educator Award (2015), ISACA's Joseph J. Wasserman Award (2011), AAA-AICPA Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award, Collar of Merit from Brazil's Tribunal of Accounts of the Union (2016), and AICPA Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award (2018). He has directed over 40 Ph.D. theses and leads initiatives like the RADAR project supported by leading CPA firms, AICPA, and CPA Canada, influencing practices at companies such as Siemens, KPMG, Procter & Gamble, and Itau-Unibanco.