Kris Hoang is Professor of Accounting at the Culverhouse School of Accountancy, University of Alabama. She earned her PhD in Accounting from the University of Alberta and holds a Master of Accounting and a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from the University of Waterloo. Before joining academia, she worked in Assurance and Advisory Services at Deloitte in Toronto and is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA).Her research examines judgment and decision-making in auditing and corporate governance, focusing on how psychological biases and interpersonal dynamics influence audit quality and financial reporting. Using experiments and field studies, she explores auditor-client relationships, audit market competition, and evidence-informed audit standard setting. Kris has published widely in leading journals such as The Accounting Review, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, and Contemporary Accounting Research. Her work addresses topics including audit engagement profitability, auditor communications with audit committees, and barriers to transferring research insights to policymakers.Kris teaches auditing and advanced accounting courses and serves as Associate Editor for Behavioral Research in Accounting. She has held visiting appointments, including a sabbatical at the University of Antwerp, and regularly collaborates internationally to bridge academic research with practice and policy.