Dr. Aniruddha “Rudy” Banerjee, Associate Professor (2013-) & Chair (2024-)
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.
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
