Faculty and Staff Profiles

• Ph.D. Computer & Information Science - The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA - 2007
• M.S. Electrical Engineering - The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA - 2002
• B.E. Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering - Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India - 2000

• Assistant Professor, Institute for Intelligent Systems, and Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering - University of Memphis - 8/11-present
• Adjunct Faculty, Information Technology - Colorado Technical University (online campus) - 1/11-present
• Senior Scientist, R&D - Audigence Inc. (a startup healthcare/biomedical company) - 6/07-1/11
• Graduate Research Associate, Lab for AI Research, Dept. of Computer & Information Science - The Ohio State University, Columbus - 9/01-6/07
• Graduate Research Associate, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Dept. of Electrical Engineering - The Ohio State University, Columbus - 9/00-8/01
• Intern, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit - Indian Statistical Institute - 6/99-4/00

• Edward J. Ray Travel Award for Scholarship and Service - Council of Graduate Students, The Ohio State University - 2004 (MBR’04, Pavia, Italy), 2006 (CP’06, Nantes, France)
• Queen’s Graduate Fellowship (declined) - Queen’s University, Canada - 2000-01
• Honorary mention at Festival Ars Electronica (Interactive Art), Austria - Autopoiesis (Conceived and designed by Prof. Ken Rinaldo, new behaviors programmed by Bonny Banerjee) - 2001
• J. N. TATA Scholarship and Jamsetji TATA Gift Award - The J. N. Tata Endowment Scholarships, India - 2000
• M. V. Chauhan Merit Certificate - IEEE Council, India - 1999
• The National Scholarship - India - 1994, 1996

• Fall 2013: EECE 4251/6251 Control Systems Engineering - University of Memphis
• Spring 2013: EECE 7905/8905 Neural Models of Real-World Perception - University of Memphis
• Fall 2012: EECE 7266/8266 Intelligent Systems - University of Memphis
• Spring 2012: Comp/Psyc/Phil 7514/8514 Cognitive Science seminar on "Neural Models of Real-World Perception" - University of Memphis
• 2011: Object Oriented Programming in Java - Colorado Technical University (online campus)

• Ph.D. - Jayanta Kumar Dutta -  
• Ph.D. - Juan Gu -  
• Ph.D. - Minsheng Zhang -  
• Ph.D. - Shanshan Gao -  
• M.S. - Ravi Prakash Kasani -  
• M.S. - Siddartha Reddy Posam -  
• M.S. - Yan Gong -  

• PI, Algorithms for unsupervised and online learning of hierarchy of features for tuning cochlear implants for the hearing impaired - National Science Foundation (NSF) - $298,203 - 2013-2015

• Research presentation at the Institute for Intelligent Systems Speed Date - Computational Intelligence Laboratory - 3/4/12 -  
• Research presentation and demonstration at the Fedex Institute of Technology Expo - Computational Intelligence Laboratory - 9/27/12 -  
• Research presentation and demonstration on Engineering-Day - Computational Intelligence Laboratory - 11/16/12 -  

• AAAI Fall Symposium on Multi-representational Architectures for Human-Level AI - Member, Organizing Committee - 2009
• International Journal of Computer Science (Publisher: International Association of Engineers) - Member, Editorial Board - 2010-present
• Journal of Engineering (Publisher: CSC Journals, Malaysia) - Member, Editorial Board - 2010-present
• Journal of Artificial Intelligence (Publisher: Asian Network for Scientific Information) - Member, Editorial Board - 2010-present
• Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence (Publisher: Academy Publisher, Finland) - Member, Editorial Board - 2010-present
• Journal of Advances in Information Technology (Publisher: Academy Publisher, Finland) - Member, Editorial Board - 2010-present
• Computers in Biology and Medicine, Elsevier - Ad-hoc reviewer -  
• Soft Computing Journal, Springer - Ad-hoc reviewer -  
• International Journal of Computer Vision, Springer - Ad-hoc reviewer -  
• AI for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing (AIEDAM) Journal, Cambridge University Press - Ad-hoc reviewer -  
• Advances of Machine Learning in Theory & Applications: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (AMALTHEA REU) Symposium (sponsored by NSF) - Member, Advisory Board - 2008
• University of Memphis - Postdoc search committee (chaired by Dr. Chrysanthe Preza) - Summer-Fall 2012
• University of Memphis - Masters thesis committee of Chandra Sekhar Rao Kolli (Adviser: Dr. Md. Yeasin) - Defended on 7/12/12
• University of Memphis - Doctoral dissertation committee of Imama Noor (Adviser: Dr. Eddie Jacobs) - Defended on 2/8/13
• University of Memphis - Judge, 24th Annual Student Research Forum - 4/2/12
• Tennessee State University and TBR Research Academy - Informal research mentor (by request) to Dr. Martene Fair working on optimal control theory - Spring 2012
• International Association of Engineers (IAENG) - Member - 2009-present

• B. Chandrasekaran, B. Banerjee, U. Kurup, J. R. Josephson and R. Winkler. (2009) "Diagrammatic reasoning in army situation understanding and planning: Architecture for decision support and cognitive modeling", Advanced Decision Architectures for the Warfighter: Foundations and Technology, P. McDermott and L. Allender, Editors, pp. 379-394.
• B. Banerjee and B. Chandrasekaran. (2007) "A constraint satisfaction framework for visual problem solving", Trends in Constraint Programming, F. Benhamou, N. Jussien and B. O’Sullivan, Editors, Hermes Science, Chapter 26.

• B. Banerjee, J. K. Dutta and J. Gu. (2013) "SELP: A general-purpose framework for learning the norms from saliencies in spatiotemporal data", Neurocomputing: Special Issue on Brain Inspired Models of Cognitive Memory, K. Ramanathan, T. Huajin & N. Ning (Eds.), Elsevier. [Accepted]
• B. Banerjee. (2012) "Learning lateral connections among neurons from correlations of their surprises", Center for Visual Science's 28th Symposium: Computational Foundations of Perception and Action, June 1-3, 2012, University of Rochester, NY.
• J. K. Dutta, J. Gu, R. P. Kasani and B. Banerjee. (2012) "A multilayered neural network model for verifying the common cortical algorithm hypothesis", Center for Visual Science's 28th Symposium: Computational Foundations of Perception and Action, June 1-3, 2012, University of Rochester, NY.
• B. Banerjee and B. Chandrasekaran. (2012) "A framework of Voronoi diagram for planning multiple paths in free space", Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Taylor & Francis. DOI:10.1080/0952813X.2012.741625.
• B. Chandrasekaran, B. Banerjee, U. Kurup and O. Lele. (2011) "Augmenting cognitive architectures to support diagrammatic imagination", Topics in Cognitive Science: Special Issue on Modeling Spatial Cognition, G. Gunzelmann, Editor, Cognitive Science Society, Vol. 3, Issue 4, pp. 760-777, October.
• B. Banerjee and B. Chandrasekaran. (2010) "A constraint satisfaction framework for executing perceptions and actions in diagrammatic reasoning", Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol. 39, pp. 373-427.
• B. Banerjee. (2007) "String tightening as a self-organizing phenomenon", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 1463-1471.
• B. Banerjee. (2006) "A layered abductive inference framework for diagramming group motions", Special Issue of Logic Journal of IGPL: Abduction, Practical Reasoning, and Creative Inferences in Science, L. Magnani, Editor, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 363-378, Oxford University Press.
• B. Banerjee. (2004) "Recognition of partially occluded shapes using a neural optimization network", Machine Graphics & Vision, Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Vol. 13, No. 1/2, pp. 3-23.
• B. Banerjee. (2003) "A self-organizing auto-associative network for the generalized physical design of microstrip patches", IEEE Transactions on Antennas & Propagation, Vol. 51, No. 6, pp. 1301-1306.
• B. Banerjee and B. Chandrasekaran. (2010) "A spatial search framework for executing perceptions and actions in diagrammatic reasoning", Diagrams 2010 - 6th Intl. Conf. on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, Portland, OR. Appears in Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, A. K. Goel, M. Jamnik and N. H. Narayanan, Editors, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6170, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 144-159.
• B. Banerjee and B. Chandrasekaran. (2007) "Representations and strategies for solving spatial problems with diagrams", Proc. IEEE Symp. on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), Coeur d'Alčne, ID, pp. 183-188.
• B. Banerjee and B. Chandrasekaran. (2006) "A framework for planning multiple paths in free space", Proc. 25th Army Science Conf, Orlando, FL.
• B. Banerjee and B. Chandrasekaran. (2006) "On automating perceptions and actions in reasoning with military diagrams", Proc. 25th Army Science Conf, Orlando, FL.
• B. Banerjee and B. Chandrasekaran. (2006) "A spatial constraint satisfaction framework for synthesizing perceptions and actions in diagrammatic reasoning", 1st Intl. Workshop on Constraint Programming for Graphical Applications, Nantes, France.
• B. Banerjee and B. Chandrasekaran. (2006) "Synthesizing visual and action routines using constraint programming", Diagrams 2006 - 4th Intl. Conf. on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, Stanford University, CA, June 28-30, 2006. Appears in Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, D. Barker-Plummer, R. Cox and N. Swoboda, Editors, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 4045, Springer Berlin, pp. 196-198.
• B. Chandrasekaran, U. Kurup and B. Banerjee. (2005) "A diagrammatic reasoning architecture: design, implementation and experiments", AAAI Spring Symp. on Reasoning with Mental and External Diagrams: Computational Modeling and Spatial Assistance, Stanford University, CA.
• B. Chandrasekaran, U. Kurup, B. Banerjee, J. R. Josephson and R. Winkler. (2004) "An architecture for problem solving with diagrams", Diagrams 2004 – 3rd Intl. Conf. on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, University of Cambridge, UK. Appears in Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, A. Blackwell, K. Marriott and A. Shimojima, Editors, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2980, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 151-165.
• B. Banerjee. (2004) "Using abduction for diagramming group motions", MBR’04 - Intl. Conf. on Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Engineering: Abduction, Visualization, and Simulation, University of Pavia, Italy.
• B. Banerjee and B. Chandrasekaran. (2004) "Perceptual and action routines in diagrammatic reasoning for entity-reidentification", Proc. 24th Army Science Conf, Orlando, FL.
• B. Chandrasekaran, U. Kurup and B. Banerjee. (2004) "Representational and inferential requirements for diagrammatic reasoning in the entity-reidentification task", Proc. 24th Army Science Conf, Orlando, FL.
• B. Banerjee and B. Chandrasekaran. (2004) "Constructing diagrams representing group motions", Diagrams 2004 - 3rd Intl. Conf. on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, University of Cambridge, UK. Appears in Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, A. Blackwell, K. Marriott and A. Shimojima, Editors, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2980, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 376-378.
• B. Chandrasekaran, J. R. Josephson, B. Banerjee, U. Kurup and R. Winkler. (2002) "Diagrammatic reasoning in support of situation understanding and planning", Proc. 23rd Army Science Conf, Orlando, FL.
• B. Coifman and B. Banerjee. (2002) "Vehicle reidentification and travel time measurement on freeways using single loop detectors – from freeflow through the onset of congestion", Proc. 7th Intl. Conf. on Applications of Advanced Technology in Transportation, Cambridge, MA.
• B. Banerjee, A. Konar and S. Mukhopadhyay. (2000) "A neuro-GA approach for the navigational planning of a mobile robot", Proc. Intl. Conf. on Communications, Computers and Devices, IIT Kharagpur, India.
• B. Banerjee and I. S. Misra. (2000) "A neuro-computing model for the design of patch antennas", Proc. Intl. Conf. on Communications, Computers and Devices, IIT Kharagpur, India.

• B. Banerjee, "From data to perception", General Dynamics Robotic Systems, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2011.
• B. Banerjee, "Spatial problem solving for diagrammatic reasoning", General Electric (GE) Global Research Center, Niskayuna, NY, March 2011.
• B. Banerjee, "Spatial problem solving for diagrammatic reasoning", Dept. of Computer & Information Science, Towson University, MD, February 2011
• B. Banerjee, "Towards a computational architecture for sensory information processing", Adobe Advanced Technology Labs, Bangalore, India, February 2011.
• B. Banerjee, "From data to inference via routines", Opera Solutions Analytic Center of Excellence, San Diego, CA, October 2010.
• B. Banerjee, "An architecture for multi-sensor data fusion", ExxonMobil Research & Engineering, NJ, February 2009.
• Lab for AI Research: Ohio State University, R. Winkler (US ARL) and G. Turner (ArtisTech), "Information fusion and diagrammatic reasoning for ASAS: Technology demonstration", Demonstration at the Collaborative Technology Alliance Conference on Advanced Decision Architecture, Washington DC, May 5-7, 2004.
• B. Banerjee, B. Chandrasekaran and J. R. Josephson, "Constructing diagrams of group motions: Experiments in diagrammatization of army maneuvers", Army Research Laboratory Meeting, Washington DC, Sept. 25-27, 2002.
• B. Chandrasekaran, J. R. Josephson, B. Banerjee and U. Kurup, "Visual inference and diagrammatic reasoning", Army Research Laboratory Meeting, Washingtion DC, Sept. 25-27, 2002.
• B. Banerjee, "An information extracting self-organizing neural network", IEEE Annual Convention and Exhibition, India, December 2002.