Saonee Sarker

Biography

Saonee Sarker officially began as Dean of the Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business on July 1, 2023.

Prior to her role as dean, Saonee (pronounced Sha-o-nee) Sarker served as a professor in the Department of Informatics in the School of Economics and Management at Lund University, Sweden. While at Lund University, she also served as a visiting professor in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics.

Previously, Dean Sarker was at the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce from 2013-21, where she held many roles including senior associate dean for academic affairs, area coordinator of IT, Rolls Royce Commonwealth Commerce Professor, and professor of IT.

At Washington State University, Sarker’s 11-year tenure included chair of the Department of Management, Information Systems, and Entrepreneurship; George and Carolyn Hubman Distinguished Professor in Management Information Systems; associate professor of information systems; and Ph.D. program coordinator.

Dean Sarker brings a wealth of research experience to the Pamplin College of Business. In the past she served as a Senior Editor in MIS Quarterly (for two-terms) as well as Senior Editor in the Journal of the AIS. Among her research interests are smart infrastructure and sustainability, healthcare information technology and technostress, technology-enabled collaboration, and more.

Dean Sarker earned a bachelor's degree from Lady Brabourne College (Calcutta University), an MBA from the University of Cincinnati, and a Ph.D. from Washington State University.

Visiting Professorships

• London School of Economics, 2022-2024
• Visiting Professor, 2015-2020
  Lund University, Sweden
• Visiting Fellow, 2012-2015
  Lund University, Sweden
• Visiting Professor, 2014-2019
  Alto University, Finland

Academic Awards/Honors

Editorial-related and research

• Best Paper Award, AIS SIGGreen, 2020 (for the paper published in MIS Quarterly on smart meter technologies)
• “Best Associate Editor,” MIS Quarterly, December 2016
• “Outstanding Associate Editor,” Decision Sciences Journal, November 2014
• Best Paper Award, Americas Conference in Information Systems, Boston, MA, 2013
• “Outstanding Faculty Research” Award, College of Business, WSU, 2010
• Awarded National Science Foundation Grant, 2009 (Primary Investigator)

Professional Development

• Certificate in Digital Transformation: From AI to IoT, Cloud, Blockchain, and Cybersecurity 2021
  MIT Professional Education, MIT, Cambridge, MA
• Leadership Development Program – Leadership Academic Matters (LAM), Spring 2020
  University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA USA
  Nominated by the Dean of the McIntire School of Commerce

External Service

Research Organizations

• Invited Workshop participant and Presenter (paid fully by NSF), National Science Foundation-VOSS Workshop, Irvine, USA, March-April 2012

Selected Journals

• Senior Editor, MIS Quarterly, Jan. 2017- Dec. 2019 (initial term); Jan. 2020- Dec. 2021 (second term) (UTD, FT, ABS 4*)
• Senior Editor, Journal of the AIS (JAIS), Jan. 2022- May 2023 (ABS 4*)
• Senior Editor, AIS Transactions in Replication Research, 2015-2019
• Guest Senior Editor, Decision Sciences Journal, 2015

Conferences/Workshops/Consortium Faculty

• Conference Co-chair, Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Reno, Nevada, August 2026.
• Co-chair, Junior Faculty Consortium, European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Cyprus, June 2024
• Programme Committee Member, Responsible Research in Business and Management Summit, Cambridge, UK, June 2024.
• Member, Working Board, Responsible Research in Business and Management, since December 2023
• Faculty Mentor, Doctoral Consortium, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Hyderabad, India, December 2023.
• Track Co-Chair, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Hyderabad, India, December 2023.
• Faculty Mentor, MISQ Scholarly Development Academy, 2022
• Faculty Mentor, Workshop for Ph.D. Students and Early Career Researchers, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, June 2022
• Faculty Mentor, Ph.D. Summit, Copenhagen Business School, May 2022

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