UF Accounting Professor Jennifer Wu Tucker Named 2026 Research Foundation Professor

Jennifer Wu Tucker, an accounting professor at the University of Florida, has been named a 2026 Research Foundation Professor, joining 32 other faculty members honored for research and innovation.

Tucker holds the J. Michael Cook and Deloitte Professor position at the Warrington College of Business and Fisher School of Accounting. The Research Foundation Professor designation recognizes faculty accomplishments in research, external funding, publications and intellectual property development. Since 1997, the program has honored more than 1,000 researchers.

This marks Tucker's second Research Foundation Professor designation. She joined Warrington in 2004 and has received the J. Michael Cook Teaching Award (2017), the Jack Wessel Research Excellence Award (2009) and the Exceptional Performance Award for Post-Tenure Review (2024). She also won Best Paper Awards from the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand and the Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance.

Tucker's research examines financial reporting, information disclosure and emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence and textual analysis. She has published 35 academic papers, including 20 in top-tier journals, with thousands of citations in outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The Economist and Harvard Business Review.

Her recent paper "Can generative AI help identify peer firms?" studied how well generative AI identifies product market competitors. The research found that AI-generated peers aligned with those identified by human experts and moved with focal firms' stock prices more than peers generated by existing systems. The paper ranked among the first accounting publications examining generative AI's role in capital markets.

Tucker serves as senior editor for Accounting Horizons, published by the American Accounting Association. She previously edited Contemporary Accounting Research, a top-tier accounting journal, for six years.