Dr. Vandana Janeja
Professor · Tenured
Department of Information Systems
College of Engineering and Information Technology
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About
Vandana Janeja is Associate Dean of Research in the College of Engineering and Information Technology, Professor of Information Systems, at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). She served as Associate Dean for research and faculty development from 2023-2026, chair of Information Systems from 2019 to 2023. She is the director of iHARP, an NSF HDR Institute for Harnessing Data and Model Revolution in the Polar Regions and heads the Multi Data lab at UMBC. She is member of the UMBC ADVANCE Executive committee focusing on diversity in STEM, and a UMBC innovation fellow (2020-2022) advancing the ideas of including ethics in data science.She served as an intermittent expert at NSF supporting data science activities in the CISE directorate (2018-2021). She holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from Rutgers University.Research interests
Data science, Artificial Intelligence, Trustworthiness, ethical thinking in data science, spatio temporal analyticsTeaching interests
Data science, Artificial Intelligence, ethical thinking in data science, foundations of data scienceEducation
- MBA, Management, Information Technology major — Rutgers University (2007)
- Ph D, Management, Information Technology major — Rutgers University (2007)
- MS, Computer Science — New Jersey Institute of Technology (2001)
- MS, Computer Management — Devi Ahilya Vishwa Vidyalaya (1999)
- BS, Geology — Devi Ahilya Vishwa Vidyalaya (1997)
- Other, Honors Diploma — National Institute of Information Technology (1997)
Press topics
AI and data science, information trustworthiness, technology for social impact