Dhinu Srinivasan

Dhinu Srinivasan is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, where he has been a faculty member since 1996. He also served as a visiting faculty member at Purdue University in 2003. His teaching focuses on managerial accounting, strategic cost management, and empirical research methods in accounting.

• Education:
  • PhD (Accounting), University of Minnesota
  • MS (Operations Management), University of Rochester
  • MBA (Accounting & MIS), Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
  • BTech (Naval Architecture), Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

His research explores the interplay between non-financial performance measures, incentive contracts, organizational performance, cost behavior, and quality management. He has contributed to major journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, The Accounting Review, and the Journal of Accounting and Economics.

He has received multiple awards for his research, including the American Accounting Association’s Outstanding Managerial Accounting Doctoral Dissertation Award (1998), Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award (2002), and Best Management Accounting Paper at the AAA Annual Meeting (2005). He has also served as a reviewer and discussant for prestigious journals and conferences.

• Scientific Awards:
  • American Accounting Association awards (1994–2005)
  • Arthur Andersen & Co. SC Foundation Doctoral Fellowship
  • Carl Nelson Scholarship
  • E. A. Heilman Scholarship for Excellence in Teaching

Dhinu has conducted consulting projects for hotel chains, retailers, and manufacturing companies, bridging academic research with industry applications.