Lakshmy Sivaratnam

Lakshmy Sivaratnam, a second year Ph.D. student in Accounting and Information Systems. She is assisting Professor Rajendra Srivastava in maintaining the E&Y CARAT web page and assisting in his research on e-commerce and bankruptcy prediction

Greg Ise

Greg Ise is a bachelors student in Accounting. He is assisting Professors Barry Baysinger and William Beedles on a research and writing project that combines literature in organizational economics and financial economics. This fall should witness completion of an article-length manuscript, and the goal for the spring is to start a book, targeted to professional managers. Greg is helping with library and bibliographic research and more importantly brings a fresh set of eyes and ideas to a controversial line of investigation.

Gurunandan Pai

Gurunandan Pai is a student of MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is assisting Professor Rajendra Srivastava on the FRANK project. His main responsibility is to program the intelligence in FRAANK in Perl language.

Susana Sanchez

Susana Jeanette Sanchez is a student of MAIS. She is assisting Professor Vernon Richardson on his research on E-commerce and financial reporting. As an E&Y fellow, she is collecting data to help find the determinants of e-commerce metrics (number of visitors, number of hits etc. at each corporation's web site). She is also collecting data to study the stock market reaction to IT alliances.

Shalin Sanjawala

Shalin Sanjanwala is a student of MIS, assisting Professor Mike Ettredge in research on e-commerce. He is collecting data on e-companies to identify e-risks. This research will help us understand the factors that determine e-risks and non-e-risks.

Andrew M Vinciguerra

Andrew Vinciguerra is a student of MAIS. He is assisting Professor Susan Scholz in her research on the judgment and decision processes related to auditing. In particular, she is investigating the circumstances in which auditors (vs. the companies themselves) identify errors and irregularities that exist in financial statements. The results will have implications for materiality judgments and risk assessments related to specific accounts and fraud.

Meredith Zepetella

Meredith Zepetella is a MAIS student who will graduate this semester. Meredith has been assisting Professor Raj Srivastava on the FRAANK project for three years as an E&Y Student Fellow. Meredith is currently managing the FRAANK project with three programmers working under her: Gurunandan Pai, MS in EECS, E&Y Fellow; Balaji Meruva, MS CS, Andersen Consulting Fellow; and Xiaodong Du, MBA, Business School Fellow.