Sean Stein Smith is an Associate Professor in the Business and Economics Department of Lehman College—City University of New York (Bronx, NY, USA). He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance, where he chairs the Accounting Working Group. Dr. Stein Smith has developed and presented courses on artificial intelligence, cryptoassets and blockchain for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA; Durham, NC, USA) and the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA; New Jersey, USA) and has delivered presentations, trainings and lectures at multiple accounting societies, colleges and universities.
Dr. Stein Smith has been named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting and is a past winner of the New Jersey Society of CPA’s Ovation Award for Innovation. He was also awarded the Outstanding Young CPA of the Year Award by the AICPA in 2022.