Education
Ph.D., Washington State University, Information Systems, 2008
M.S., BITS, Pilani, Software Engineering, 2001
B.Sc., University of Calcutta, Physics (Hons), 1997
Areas of Expertise
Requirements Engineering, Distributed ISD Teams, Organizations and IS, Grounded Theory Method, Qualitative Research Methods
Biography
Dr. Suranjan Chakraborty has been an Assistant/Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Towson University since 2008. He is currently the director of the MS in AIT program. Prior to starting an academic career Dr. Chakraborty was a systems engineer for 7 years at Wipro. He received a Ph.D. in Information Systems from Washington State University, in 2008, a MS in Software Engineering from BITS, Pilani in 2001 and a B.Sc. in Physics (Hons) from the University of Calcutta (Presidency College) in 1997.
Dr. Chakraborty has taught courses in Requirements Engineering; E-Commerce; Analysis and Design of Websites; Cloud Computing; Human Computer Interaction. He is currently the program director of the MS in AIT program; and the Chairperson of the Fisher College of Science and Mathematics. His teaching interests include requirements engineering, e-commerce, Human computer interaction and research methods.
Scholarship, Creative Activity:
Dr. Chakraborty received his Ph.D. in Information System from Washington State University in 2008, and has been a faculty in Towson since that time. Before joining academia, he worked for seven years at Wipro Technologies a leading software services company as a software engineer.
His primary research interests are in requirements engineering, distributed ISD teams and qualitative research methods. His research has been published in leading IS journals and conferences such as Journal of MIS (JMIS), Decision Sciences Journal (DSJ), Journal of the AIS (JAIS), European Journal for Information Systems (EJIS), Decision Support Systems (DSS), ACM Transactions on MIS (TMIS), and the International Conference for Information Systems (ICIS). Dr. Chakraborty has been a Co-PI in two external grants amounting to $165,634 from the Maryland Higher Education Commission. He has been guest associate editor for Information Systems Journal, guest editorial board member for Journal of the AIS, and is a member of the editorial board for Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applied Research (JITCAR).
Professional Service:
Associate Editor, Information Systems Development track, 37th International Conference on Information Systems, Ireland, 2016
Guest Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Association for Information Systems (JAIS) forthcoming Special Issue on ICT Challenges and Opportunities in building a “Bright Society”.
Track Chair, Information Systems and Positive Organizational Scholarship, European Conference on Information Systems, Istanbul, Turkey, 2016
Associate Editor, Information Systems Development track, 36th International Conference on Information Systems, Forth Worth, TX, 2015
Guest Associate Editor, Information Systems Journal, Special Issue on Digitization in Business Models and Entrepreneurship, 2013
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applied Research (JITCAR) 2010 -
Reviewer: MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences Journal, Journal of the AIS, Information Systems Journal, Communications of AIS, Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applied Research, Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, International conference on Information Systems (ICIS), European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS
Selected Publications and Presentations:
Selected Peer Reviewed Journals
Chatterjee, S., Moody, G., Lowry, P. Chakraborty, S., and Hardin, A. (forthcoming). Strategic Relevance of Organizational Virtues Enabled By Information Technology in Organizational Innovation. Forthcoming at the Journal of Management Information Systems
Chakraborty, S., Rosenkranz, C., and Dehlinger, J. (2015) Getting to the Shalls: Facilitating Sensemaking in Requirements Engineering ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS), 5(3), Article 14, 1-30.
Sarker, S., Chakraborty, S., Tansuhaj, P., Mulder, M, and Dogerlogliou-Demir, (2013) The “Mail-Order-Bride”(MOB) Phenomenon in the Cyberworld, ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS), 4(3), Article
Sarker, S., Kirkeby, S., Sarker, S. and Chakraborty, S. (2011) Road to “Stardom” in Globally Distributed Teams: An Examination of a Knowledge-centered Perspective using Social Network Analysis, Decision Sciences Journal, 42(2), 339-370
Chakraborty, S., Sarker, S. and Sarker, S. (2010) An Exploration into the Process of Requirements Elicitation: A Grounded Approach, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 9(4), 212-249.
Sarker, S., Munson, C., Sarker, S. and Chakraborty, S. (2009) Assessing the Relative Contribution of the Facets of Agility in Distributed ISD Success: An Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach, European Journal of Information Systems, 18(4), 285-299 (ABS2015 Rating: 3)
Chatterjee, S., Chakraborty, S, Sarker, S., Sarker, S. and Lau, F. (Equal Authorship) (2009) Examining the Success Factors for Mobile Work in Healthcare: A Deductive study, Decision Support Systems, 46(3), 620 – 633.
Selected Conference Proceedings
Chakraborty, S., Dehlinger, J., and Rosenkranz, C. (2012) A Grounded Theoretical and Linguistic Analysis Approach for Non Functional Requirements Analysis, in the Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Information Systems, Orlando, Florida.
Chatterjee, S. , Chakraborty, S., and Sarker , S. (2011) The Strategic Relevance of IT-enabled Organizational Virtues, in the proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Information Systems , Shanghai, China
Rai, S., Chakraborty, S. and Sarker, S. (2010) Understanding the Role of Inference in the Requirements Elicitation Process During Information Systems Development, in the Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Information Systems , St. Louis, Missouri
Chakraborty, S., Sarker, S. and Valacich, J. (2007) Understanding Analyst Effectiveness in Requirements Elicitation: A Gestalt Fit Perspective, in the Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Information Systems, St Gallen, Switzerland.
Sarker, S., Kirkeby, S., Chakraborty, S. and Sarker, S. (2006) Road to “Stardom” in Globally Distributed Teams: An Examination of a Knowledge-centered Perspective using Social Network Analysis, in Proceedings of the 40th annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Kona, Hawaii, USA.
Research:
Co-PI, Ghost-Hunting in Baltimore: Enabling an Immersive Student Learning Environment through a Context-Aware Mobile Application. Funded by Towson University School of Emerging Technologies Seed Funding. $25,000. 2014-2015
Co-PI, “Developing Prospective teachers’ Questioning Skills through Interaction with a Virtual Interview Subject.” Funded by: Towson University School of Emerging Technologies Seed Funding. $10,800, 2013-1014
Co –PI , “Expanding the Reach of the IT Programs at Towson University” Funded by Maryland Higher Education Council (MHEC): BRAC Higher Education Investment Fund, 2010 , $73,844
Co-PI, “Expanding an Applied Information Technology Masters Program," Funded by: Maryland Higher Education Council (MHEC), 2008, $90,990, 2009-10
Memberships / Affiliations:
Association of Information Systems (AIS)
AIS-SIG Grounded Theory Method
AIS-SIG Systems Analysis and Design
AIS-SIG Philosophy