Shobha Chengalur-Smith
PhD, Virginia Tech (VPI&SU), 1989
Faculty Expertise and Achievements
Shobha Chengalur-Smith is a faculty member in the Information Systems & Business Analytics department at the School of Business at the University at Albany, SUNY. She received her PhD from Virginia Tech and prior to joining academia, she worked in both the private and the public sectors.
Research Interests
Her research interests are in the areas of virtual communities, technology adoption and implementation, and information quality and security.
She has worked on federally sponsored grants as well as industry-sponsored projects, ranging from best practices in computational thinking to technology implementation.
Teaching Interests and Areas
- BITM 331: Information Decision Systems
- BITM 322: Statistical Decision Systems
- BITM 415: Data Analytics for Business
- BITM 513: Statistical Analysis for Managers
- BITM 520: Database Management
- BITM 522 Managing Information Technology
- BITM 611: Analysis of Design of Information Decision Systems
- BINF 701 Proseminar in Information Management
Professional Service
She serves on the editorial boards of Information & Management and the ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality. Her research has been published in academic journals such as Management Information Systems Quarterly, Information Systems Research, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of the AIS, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, and multiple IEEE Transactions.