Dr. Aniruddha “Rudy” Banerjee, Associate Professor (2013-) & Chair (2024-)
rbanerje at iudotedu
Department of Geography, Indiana University Indianapolis (IUI)Sabbatical at EHS, UC Berkeley 2013-14; Research Fellow, Prevention Research Center, Berkeley, CA.
Advisor, SmartZIP™ (real estate intelligence startup), SmartZIP.com, Pleasanton, CA
Advisor, Prodigiq™ (Aviation Software Solutions), Prodigiq.com, Thousand Oaks, California
He founded SkyDOS (a patented drone operating system) https://liberalarts.indianapolis.iu.edu/blogs/the-slate/dr-banerjee-receives-us-patent-for-methods-and-systems-providing-aerial-transport-network-infrastructures-for-unmanned-aerial-vehicles/ . His invention(s) aims at de-risking the last mile autonomous delivery. https://blogs.iu.edu/rudy/2023/03/15/skydos-brochure/
His interests are in spatial and computational statistics, spatial econometrics, decision support systems, and applied operations research (environmental and population health). Rudy Banerjee earned his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Bengal Engineering College-University of Calcutta India. Migrating to the United States, he earned an MS degree in Urban and Regional Planning and his doctorate in Geography (environmental epidemiology and GISc) from the University of Iowa. He also has a Graduate Certificate in Transportation Studies from that institution.
Rudy has applied combinatorial optimization methods using both integer programming and graph theoretic approaches, Bayesian simulation of hierarchical networks and stochastic optimizations to analyze health information and develop space-time models of population health. Rudy was a recipient of the 2005 (International Medical Geography Symposium’s) Jacques May Dissertation Prize. He has been invited to the National Institute of Health (NIH), Oakridge National Laboratories, Institute for the Future (a Rand Corporation spinoff located at Palo Alto, California; where he is a consultant), University of California at Berkeley and Santa Barbara, University of Washington-Seattle, Harvard University, IUI ‘Cutting-Edge Lecture Series’ etc. to share his work on GISc and health.
His publications have appeared in Social Science & Medicine, American journal of preventive medicine, Vision Research, International Journal of Medical Science, Substance Use and Misuse, and Clinical and Experimental Research, as well as various book chapters. He was an adviser and founding member of a real estate intelligence Silicon Valley startup (smartzip.com) to estimate sales potential using Bayesian predictors.
GISc, Operations Research, Transportation Engineering/Planning/Drones, Spatial Statistics, Medical Geography/Spatial Epidemiology, Mathematical Statistics, Network Complexity, Architecture, Philosophy, Science Blogger
Professional Positions
Associate Professor, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, GISc. (2012 – Present). Associate Research Scientist, Prevention Research Center, PIRE, Berkeley, CA. (2003 – 2006).
Founder and chief Scientist, SkyDOS – a Drone Operating System (https://iu.flintbox.com/technologies/ef83ccde-32dd-479d-9b0d-1068cd260258)
Associate Professor (Sabbatical), Environmental Health Science, UC Berkeley (2013-2014). Assistant Professor, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, GISc. (2006 – 2012).
Education
PhD, University of Iowa, 2004. Major: Geography/GIS Supporting Areas of Emphasis: Spatial/Math Stats MSU&RP, University of Iowa, 1994. Major: Urban & Regional Planning Supporting Areas of Emphasis:
Transportation Planning and Engineering
BArch, Bengal Engineering College (Calcutta Univ.), 1991. Major: Architecture Supporting Areas of Emphasis: Structural Engineering; thesis title: Parliament House, Tripura, India
Awards/Honors/Influencer
Advisor/consultant: Institute for the Future (IFTF) (affiliate of RAND Corporation & Stanford University): Future of Healthcare (GISc) 2005.
Advisor/consultant: Department of Defense (Remote sensing AI development) 2016. Advisor: Award winning Silicon Valley Startup Smartzip (2007-15).
Advisor: Award winning LA based Airport Intelligence firm Prodigiq (2014-present).
International Best Dissertation Award: Jacques May International Medical Geography Symposium, 2005. Best sketching award, Zonal, National Association of Students of Architecture (NASA), (INDIA) 1988.
Best Artist (painting), St Patrick’s HS School (INDIA) 1983-84. School Opera (vocals) St Patrick’s HS School (INDIA) 1976-82.
Selected Media Appearances and Interviews:
Selected Publications/Patents/Awards (includes Nature, Lancet, JAMA, Vision Research etc.)
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=u5BOa-QAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Latest in Spatial Evolutionary Genetics (Nature, Entomology etc.):
Owings, C. G., Banerjee, A., & Picard, C. J. (2023). Temporal population genetic structure of Phormia regina (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Journal of Medical Entomology, tjad115.
Owings, C. G., Banerjee, A., Asher, T. M., Gilhooly III, W. P., Tuceryan, A., Huffine, M., … & Picard, C. J. (2019). Female blow flies as vertebrate resource indicators. NATURE Scientific Reports, 9(1), 10594.
Picard, C. J., Owings, C. G., Skaggs, C. H., Asher, T., Tuceryan, A., William III, B. G., Manicke, N. E., & Banerjee, A. (2019). Fly and mammal biodiversity: Unexpected linkages. Entomology 2019. (conference)
Banerjee, A., Owings, C. G., Picard, C. J., Lulla, V. O., Gilhooly, W., Manicke, N., & Asher, T. (2019). Developing a Bio-spatial GIS network model for bio drones. 15–15. http://www.imgs2019.com/documents/book-of-abstracts-imgs2019.pdf (conference)
Picard, C. J., Owings, C. G., Gilhooly, W. P., Skaggs, C., Manicke, N. E., & Banerjee, A. (2018). A multidisciplinary approach to a spatially and temporally explicit model of vertebrate ecosystem community structure using carrion insects. 2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5-10). (conference)
Banerjee, A. (Co-PD/PI), Picard, C. J. (Program Director (PD)/Principal Investigator (PI)), Gilhooly, W. (Co-PD/PI), Manicke,
(Co-PD/PI), Environmental drones: blow flies as indicators of vertebrate diversity and abundance, Sponsored by National Geographic Society (January 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019). Award. (grant)
Latest in Spatial Mental Health (LANCET, JAMA etc.)
Rockett, I. R. H., Caine, E. D., Banerjee, A., Ali, B., Miller, T., Connery, H. S., Lulla, V. O., Nolte, K. B., Larkin, G. L., Stack, S.,
Hendricks, B., McHugh, R. K., White, F. M. M., Greenfield, S. F., Bohnert, A. S. B., Cossman, J. S., D’Onofrio, G., Nelson, L. S., Nestadt, P. S., … Jia, H. (2021). Fatal self-injury in the United States, 1999–2018: Unmasking a national mental health crisis. LANCET: eClinicalMedicine, 32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100741
Rockett, I. R. H., Ali, B., Caine, E. D., Shepard, D. S., Banerjee, A., Nolte, K. B., Connery, H. S., Larkin, G. L., Stack, S., White, F.
285. M., Jia, H., Cossman, J. S., Feinberg, J., Stover, A. N., & Miller, T. R. (2023). Escalating costs of self-injury mortality in the 21st century United States: An interstate observational study. BMC Public Health, 23(1), 285.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15188-8
Rockett, I. R. H., Jia, H., Ali, B., Banerjee, A., Connery, H. S., Nolte, K. B., Miller, T., White, F. M. M., DiGregorio, B. D., Larkin,
2146591. L., Stack, S., Kõlves, K., McHugh, R. K., Lulla, V. O., Cossman, J., De Leo, D., Hendricks, B., Nestadt, P. S., Berry, J. H., … Caine, E. D. (2022). Association of State Social and Environmental Factors With Rates of Self-injury Mortality and Suicide in the United States. JAMA Network Open, 5(2), e2146591. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.46591
2146592.
Latest in Spatial Network Science/Complexity
Banerjee, A. (2018). Hospital Architecture and Infection Modeling: A Network Approach. NETSCI 2018 Book of Abstracts: Epidemiology. Published. https://www.netsci2018.com/posters
In progress: Explosive Quarantine: A novel approach to spatial quarantine https://blogs.iu.edu/rudy/2020/03/18/explosive-quarantine-a-novel-approach-to-spatial-quarantine/ (work in progress w/ Dr. Raissa M. D’Souza Fellow, American Physical Society)
Lipton, R., Banerjee, A., Ponicki, W. R., Gruenewald, P. J., & Morrison, C. (2021). Impacts of confounding roadway characteristics on estimates of associations between alcohol outlet densities and alcohol‐ related motor vehicle crashes. Drug and alcohol review, 40(2), 239-246.
Banerjee A. Aerial Drone Operating System & Transportation Network Infrastructure (Patent: US11853953B2 Dec 26 2023)
Spatial Epidemiology, Drug Markets & Misc (Vision Research, Social Sc. & Med)
Banerjee, A. (2016). scholar Beyond Euclidean Maps: Simultaneous Thinking, Networks and Rushton’s “Leitwissenschaft”. In Phipps, A. G. (2016). Research Advances in Behavioral, Economic and Health Geography Inspired by Gerard Rushton..
Banerjee, A., LaScala, E., Gruenewald, P. J., Freisthler, B., Treno, A., & Remer, L. G. (2008). Social disorganization, alcohol, and drug markets and violence. In Geography and drug addiction (pp. 117–130). Springer, Dordrecht.
Chu, B., Russell, M., Gruenewald, P., Fan, A., & Banerjee, A. (2005). Understanding the role of total alcohol volume and frequency in assessing risks of developing myocardial infarction at specific dosage levels. Alcoholism-Clinical & Experimental Research, 29, 37A–37A.
Laeng, B., Brennen, T., Elden, \AAke, Paulsen, H. G., Banerjee, A., & Lipton, R. (2007). Latitude-of-birth and season-of-birth effects on human color vision in the Arctic. Vision Research, 47(12), 1595–1607.
Banerjee, A. (2007). Temporal changes in the spatial pattern of disease rates incorporating known risk factors.Social Science & Medicine, 65(1), 7–19.
Geographic Information Science (G338/G438) Advanced Geographic Information Science (G438/G539) Seminar in Geographic Information Science (G439/G639) Applied Spatial Statistics (G488/G588)
Jacques May Thesis Prize 2005
GISc, Operations Research, Transportation Engineering/Planning/Drones, Spatial Statistics, Medical Geography/Spatial Epidemiology, Mathematical Statistics, Network Complexity, Architecture, Philosophy, Science Blogger
Chair, Department of Geography/GIS
Indiana University Indianapolis
