Dr. Aniruddha “Rudy” Banerjee
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis Geography/GISc
510.684.0096
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: [1] “Tech Talk: The New Frontier: Drones/Unmanned Aircraft in Higher Education and Academic Research,” https://1871.com/. (November 11, 2021); [2] “Job Market for Recent Grads,” EXPERTS WEIGH IN ON CURRENT JOB MARKET TRENDS February 26, 2021. (February 26, 2021).
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.
- 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,
- 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
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.
Contribution:
This letter from Dr Paul Gruenewald, an NIH Merit Award Winner & Director of PIRE, Berkeley, highlights my contribution to alcohol research:
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