Catherine Shenoy is a senior lecturer emerita in finance. She is the former director of the Center for Business Analytics Research and of the MBA programs in the KU School of Business.

She served on the school's faculty from 1993 to 2019 teaching finance, accounting and statistics. She taught the Applied Portfolio Management student-managed portfolio class from 2001-2017. Her teaching interests have been in the areas of investments, corporate finance, statistics and decision analysis. Her research interests have been in the areas of corporate governance and investment analysis using artificial intelligence techniques. She has published articles on executive stock options, the information content of finance decisions, portfolio analysis using AI techniques, and cash flow forecasting, with articles appearing in Financial Management, the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Journal of Applied Finance, and others.

Shenoy served as a Foreign Service Officer for the U.S. Department of State. She was posted in Washington, D.C., and Tunis, Tunisia. She also served as a senior research assistant for the Krider-Redwood Economic Development Report while she was employed at the Institute for Public Policy and Business Research from 1984 to 1988. Shenoy has served on several community not-for-profit boards.