Ronghuo Zheng

Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Texas at Austin

Ronghuo Zheng is an associate professor of accounting at The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business. His research is in the broad area of financial and managerial accounting, with a focus on the role of information in decision-making. More specifically, his research investigates how institutions and information environments affect individual incentives and behaviors, and how strategic agents influence information environments via shaping accounting information systems and public disclosure policies. His research is mostly interdisciplinary, often at the intersection of accounting and corporate finance and/or operations management. His research has been published in numerous academic journals, such as Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, Management Science, and The Rand Journal of Economics. Zheng earned Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in industrial administration from Carnegie Mellon University. He attended Tsinghua University in China to earn a Bachelor of Engineering in automation and a Bachelor of Arts in economics.