Sanjukta Das Smith

Associate Professor
Management Science and Systems

Education

PhD, University of Connecticut
MS, Clarkson University
MBM, Calcutta University
BCom, Calcutta University

Teaching

  • Predictive analytics
  • Social network analytics
  • Contract management
  • Management of IT projects

Selected Research

Anderson, A., Noyes, E., and Smith, S.D., “Social Network Analysis and Relational Coordination: Tools to Empower Nurse Administrators Leading Care Coordination Teams Facilitating Cross-sector Transitions”, Forthcoming at The Journal of Nursing Administration.

Anderson, A., Smith, S.D., Dickerson, S., Hewner, S., and Noyes, E., “Cross-sector Collaboration in Transitional Care of People Experiencing Homelessness: Insights from an Exploratory Network Analysis”, Forthcoming at Journal of Interprofessional Care.

Yuan, S., Das, S., Ramesh, R. and Qiao, C., “Availability-Aware Virtual Resource Provisioning for Infrastructure Service Agreements in the Cloud”, Information Systems Frontier, 2023, 25(1495 – 1512).

Fan, J., Jiang, M., Rottenstreich, O., Zhao, Y., Guan, T., Das, S., Ramesh, R. and Qiao, C., “A Framework for Provisioning Availability of NFV in Data Center Networks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications – 2018, Special Issue on Network Softwarization & Enablers.

Yuan, S., Das, S., Ramesh, R. and Qiao, C., “Service Agreement Trifecta: Backup Resources, Price and Penalty in the Availability-Aware Cloud,” Information Systems Research, December 2018, 29(4).

Du, A.Y., Das, S., Yang, Z., Qiao, C. and Ramesh, R., “Predicting Transient Downtime in Virtual Server Systems: An Efficient Sample Path Randomization Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, December 2015, 64(12).

Yang, Z., Liu, L., Das, S., Ramesh, R., Du, A.Y. and Qiao, C., “Availability-aware Energy-efficient Virtual Machine Placement Algorithms,” Journal of Communications – Special Issue on “Frontiers of Computing and Communications”, September 2015, 10(9).

Du, A.Y., Das, S., Gopal, R. D. and Ramesh, R., “Optimal Management of Digital Content on Tiered Infrastructure Platforms,” Information Systems Research, December 2014, 25(4), pp. 730 – 746.

Du, A.Y., Das, S. and Ramesh, R., “Efficient Risk Hedging by Dynamic Forward Pricing: A Study in Cloud Computing,” INFORMS Journal on Computing, Fall 2013, 25(4).

Chai, S., Das, S. and Rao, H.R., “Factors Affecting Bloggers’ Knowledge Sharing on Social Networking Websites: A Socio-Technical Approach,” Journal of Management Information Systems, Winter 2011 – 2012, 28(3), pp. 309-341.

Professional Associations

  • INFORMS
  • AIS
  • Beta Gamma Sigma

Awards and Recognition

Phillip B. Wels Outstanding Service Award from the UB Alumni Association. Awarded for advancing a culture of philanthropy within the School of Management, as part of the School of Management Faculty Philanthropy Committee. Given to individuals and groups whose achievements, contributions or volunteer service advance UB.

Dean’s Faculty Fellow. 2016-25

UB’s Exceptional Scholar – Young Investigator Award2012

Noteworthy Academic Service

Co-Chair. Mid-Career Faculty Consortium, American Conference of Information Systems (AMCIS) 2025, Montreal, QC.

Associate Editor, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2023, Hyderabad, India.

Co-Chair. Doctoral Consortium, American Conference of Information Systems (AMCIS) 2022, Minneapolis, MN.

Associate Editor, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2018, San Francisco, CA.

Associate Editor, Information Systems Research. 2016-20

Associate Editor, INFORMS Journal on Computing.  2013-17

External Grants

Co-Principal Investigator, “Machine Learning Detection and Response for Space Force Ground Systems.” January 2024 – August 2025. United States Air Force STTR Grant Phase II. Award Amount (UB’s portion): $539,809.

Co-Principal Investigator, “Machine Learning Detection and Response for Space Force Ground Systems”. Summer 2023. United States Air Force STTR Grant Phase I. Award Amount (UB’s portion): $25,000.

Co-Principal Investigator on a research project “Providing Reliable Cloud Services Through Availability-aware SLA Contract Designs”, funded by Huawei Technologies. December 2015. Award amount: $225,000.

Co-PI on the research project “An Analytical Approach to Quantifying Availability (AQUA) for Cloud Resource Provisioning and Allocation" funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) (2014-16). Award amount: $400,000.

Co-PI on the research project “Disaster Resilience and Availability Prediction (DRAP) for Clouds” funded by Google (2012-13). Award amount: $102,000.

Other Experience

  • Department Chair, Management Science and Systems, 2018-25
  • Co-Associate Director of the Computational Data Enabled Science and Engineering (CDSE) Program, 2016-20
  • Director, MS MIS Program, 2016-20
  • Associate Director, MS MIS Program, 2010-16