Shobha Chengalur-Smith
PhD, Virginia Tech (VPI&SU), 1989

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 Ph.D. from Virginia Tech and prior to joining academia, she worked in both the private and the public sectors. 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.
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.
Courses
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