Arion Cheong (acheong)

Arion Cheong

Assistant Professor

School of Business

Altorfer 415E
(201) 216-3640
Website

Education

  • PhD (2021) Rutgers University (Accounting Information Systems)
  • MA (2017) University of Texas at Austin (Economics)
  • BA (2015) Kyunghee University (International Studies)

General Information

Arion's research focuses on automating auditing through big data and AI, cybersecurity assurance and reporting, and the managerial implications of information technology. He has advised organizations on the adoption of audit data analytics, including the Brazilian Stock Exchange (B3) and AB InBev.

Professional Service

  • Journal of Information Systems (American Accounting Association) Editorial Board
  • Bright Internal Global Summit (Association for Information Systems) Program Committee
  • Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) Program Committee

Selected Publications

Conference Proceeding

  1. Cheong, A.; Wang, T. D. (2022). The Invisible Risk: The Data-sharing Activities of Data Brokers and Information Leakage. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2021 PRE-ICIS SIGDSA SYMPOSIUM. Association of Information Systems.
    https://aisel.aisnet.org/sigdsa2021/13/.

Journal Article

  1. Cheong, A.; Duan, H. K.; Huang, Q.; Vasarhelyi, M. A.; Zhang, C. A. (2022). The rise of accounting: Making accounting information relevant again with exogenous data. Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting (1 ed., vol. 19, pp. 1-20). Florida: American Accounting Association.
    https://publications.aaahq.org/jeta/article-abstract/19/1/1/10206/The-Rise-of-Accounting-Making-Accounting.
  2. Cho, S.; Lee, K.; Cheong, A.; No, W. G.; Vasarhelyi, M. (2021). Chain of Values: Examining the Economic Impacts of Blockchain on the Value-Added Tax System. Journal of Management Information Systems (2 ed., vol. 38, pp. 288-313). Taylor & Francis.
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07421222.2021.1912912.
  3. Cheong, A.; Yoon, K.; Cho, S.; No, W. G. (2021). Classifying the contents of cybersecurity risk disclosure through textual analysis and factor analysis. Journal of Information Systems (vol. 35(2), pp. 179-194). American Accounting Association.
    https://publications.aaahq.org/jis/article-abstract/35/2/179/960/Classifying-the-Contents-of-Cybersecurity-Risk.
  4. Vasarhelyi, M. A.; Cho, S.; Cheong, A.; Zhang, C. (2020). Smart Audit: the digital transformation of audit. European Court of Auditors Journal (vol. 1, pp. 27-32).
    https://medium.com/ecajournal/smart-audit-the-digital-transformation-of-audit-b283e1653bd4.
  5. Brown-Liburd, H.; Cheong, A.; Vasarhelyi, M. A.; Wang, X. (2019). Measuring with exogenous data (MED), and government economic monitoring (GEM). Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting (1 ed., vol. 16, pp. 1-19). American Accounting Association.