Sulin Ba

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Sulin Ba is a Chinese-American scholar and administrator. Since July 2022 she has served as the dean of DePaul University's Driehaus College of Business. She was born in China and studied at Sun Yat-sen University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in Library and Information Sciences. She came to the United States for graduate study at the University of Texas at Austin, earning a master's degree in Library and Information Sciences and a PhD in Management Information Systems.

Ba started her academic career at the University of Southern California and spent more than 20 years at the University of Connecticut. At UConn she was the Treibick Family Endowed Chair, the first Associate Dean of Academic and Research Support, and the executive director of the Connecticut Information Technology Institute (2014–2019), focusing on entrepreneurship and innovation. Her research covers crowdsourcing platforms, online word-of-mouth, and digital health communities. She has been recognized for work in health information technology, online behavior, and internal market mechanisms, and has testified before the U.S. House Committee on Small Business. Her work appears in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Production and Operations Management, and she has written books including Building Community Partnerships and Strengthening Business Education. She is also featured in The Rise of Chinese American Leaders in U.S. Higher Education: Stories and Roadmaps (2023).