Wei Zhu

Biography

Wei Zhu is an associate professor of accountancy and a KPMG faculty fellow in Gies College of Business. He earned his Ph.D. in accounting from Yale School of Management and joined Gies as an assistant professor in 2013. He conducts archival financial accounting research and is interested in interdisciplinary topics at the intersections of financial reporting, asset pricing, and sustainability. He currently serves on the editorial boards of two top accounting journals – The Accounting Review and Contemporary Accounting Research. Wei teaches the master’s-level course Data Analytics Applications in Accountancy and has repeatedly qualified for the “List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students” since 2016. In 2022, he received the Raymond A. Hoffman Faculty Excellence Award for Research and Teaching at the Department of Accountancy.