C. Janie Chang is the Academic Executive Director of the Master of Professional Accountancy program at University of California, Davis. She received her PhD from the University of California-Irvine. Before joining UC Davis in 2023, Dr. Chang was the Vern Odmark Professor at San Diego State University (SDSU). At SDSU, she established the graduate Accounting Information Systems (AIS) program. She also taught students at University of California-Irvine, San Jose State University, and California State University-San Marcos. Dr. Chang's teaching interests in AIS include information systems audit, data modeling, issues in e-business, and business networks and controls.
Dr. Chang is a member of the American Accounting Association and Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). Dr. Chang has studied issues in auditing, accounting, and information systems to investigate information processing of experts in addition to cross-cultural issues related to professional judgments and decisions. Her studies have been published in Abacus, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Data Base, International Journal of Accounting, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Journal of Accounting Literature, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, and Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, among others.