Charles Gruber, MSBIS

Charles Gruber is a MSBIS student at the University of Kansas. He will be working with Professor Tom Roberts as his E&Y Faculty Mentor. Charles was a 2002 business graduate of KU and was a two time All American in track for the Jayhawks. This year, he will be assisting in the development of several on-line survey instruments that are involved with research projects that include IT personnel trust, equity, motivation, and communication. He will also help with an experiment involving a comparison of face-to-face, asynchronous, and synchronous communication that will be conducted in BUS 248 using a Group Decision Support System (GDSS) and system development heuristics. He will also be involved in the setting up of a new networking laboratory that will be used to teach BUS 651 and for future research experiments in networking.

Srikanth Pyneni

Srikanth Pyneni will work on the research project "FRAANK." This project is being developed at the School of Business, University of Kansas, as an on-going project on "Financial Reporting and Auditing Agent with Net Knowledge." This project involves programming in Perl and SQL database languages to access financial and non-financial information through the Internet of publicly held companies from the SEC Database called 'Edgar'. The responsibility involves the student to write codes in Perl to parse the information on the financial statement to collect desired financial and non-financial information.

Rachel Sawyer

Rachel Sawyer is in her last semester as a graduate student in the MAIS program. She is specializing in tax and has accepted a position starting in January with Ernst & Young in Kansas City. Rachel, a native of Sabetha, KS., received her undergraduate degree from Kansas State. She will be a member of the graduate team that will participate in the Deloitte & Touche Tax Challenge in October. Rachel will be assisting Professor Allen Ford with updating and creating tax modules used as supplementary material for students in the undergraduate tax class and working with him on a research paper. She will move the tax course to Blackboard. Rachel will also provide assistance to undergraduate tax students and help with grading projects

Stacey Schneider

Stacey Schneider is an MAIS student at the University of Kansas, who will graduate in December, 2003. Her project is to assist Prof. Heintz with the delivery of the Introductory Auditing course. In addition to the normal grading and record maintenance responsibilities of an assistant, she will maintain the course materials on Blackboard. She also will perform searches for specific types of international and US audit reports for use in the course, and conduct background research on the industry and company to be used in a major course project

Lili Sun

Lili Sun is working on her Ph. D. dissertation that deals with information security and financial risk. Basically she is trying to develop models that would assess and predict information security risk and financial risk in an audit client. She plans to complete her degree within this academic year.

Alice Wong, Senior, BS Accounting

Alice Wong will be completing her BS in accounting at KU this December. She wrote a term paper on XBRL for her honors program under my supervision. Based on this experience, she will working on building and refining the synonym database for tagging financial and non-financial information using the XBRL taxonomy.