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Sandeep Purao

Sandeep Purao
Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
spurao at ist.psu.edu
814-863-0017
316B Information Sciences and Technology Building

Education

Ph.D., Management Science University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 1995
MBA Northern Illinois University 1988
Bachelor of Law University of Bombay, India 1984
Bachelor of Commerce University of Bombay, India 1983

Web Sites

http://purao.ist.psu.edu

Research and Teaching

Dr. Sandeep Purao is an associate professor of Information Sciences and Technology.

Prior to joining Penn State, Purao was on the faculty at Georgia State University.

Purao’s research focuses on the design, evolution, and management of complex techno-organizational systems. His current projects include process-focused composition and monitoring of service-based systems, risk mitigation in large-scale organizational IT integration projects, and investigation of Web service standardization processes.

Purao’s work has been published in journals such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics-A, ACM Computing Surveys, and Information Systems Research; and conferences such as the International Conference on Information Systems, IEEE Service-oriented Computing Conference, and the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling. He currently serves as an associate editor for MIS Quarterly.

Purao holds a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is a member of AIS, ACM, and IEEE.