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Contact Information: ERF 3029 Phone: (312) 996-5599 Fax: (312) 413-0447 E-mail: banerjee@uic.edu Laboratory: 1024 ERF and 4031 SEL (312) 996 0579 and (312) 996-2387

P. Banerjee
Professor

B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology

M.S., Industrial Engineering
Purdue University

Ph.D., Industrial Engineering
Purdue University

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (2007-present)
• Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2003)
• UIC Research Award (2000)
• U.S. Army Summer Fellowship (2000)
• ASME Best Technical Paper Award (1999)
• Department Editor, IIE Transaction (1996-2001)
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Robotics & Automation (1998-2001)

Selected Publications

P. Banerjee, C Luciano C, GM Lemole Jr, FT Charbel , MY Oh, " Accuracy of ventriculostomy catheter placement using a head- and hand-tracked high-resolution virtual reality simulator with haptic feedback", Journal of Neurosurgery, vol. 107, no. 3, 2007 pp. 515-521.

A. Akgunduz, P. Banerjee and S. Mehrotra, “A Linear Programming Solution for Exact Collision Detection”, ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, vol. 5, no. 1, 2005, pp. 48-60.

P. Banerjee and D. Basu-Mallick, “Measuring the Effectiveness of Presence and Immersive Tendencies on the Conceptual Design Review Process”, ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, vol. 3, no. 2, 2003, pp. 166-169.

C. Luciano, P. Banerjee, and S. Mehrotra, “ 3D Animation Of Telecollaborative Anthropomorphic Avatars”, Communications of the ACM, vol. 44, no. 12, 2001, pp. 64-67.

P. Banerjee and D. Zetu, Virtual Manufacturing , John Wiley, New York, 2001 (ISBN: 0-471-35443-0)

A. Banerjee, P. Banerjee, T. DeFanti, J. Curtis, B. Dodds and A. Hudson, "A Behavioral Layer Architecture for Telecollaborative Virtual Manufacturing Operations", IEEE Trans. on Robotics and Automation, vol. 16, no. 3, 2000, pp. 218-227.

Research Interests

There are three research thrust areas:

• ImmersiveTouch: Haptics and virtual reality applications in medicine
• Industrial Virtual Reality Institute: Local and telecollaborative industrial virtual reality applications
• Manufacturing systems design, product design and prognostics

Please check the individual web pages for all these thrust areas for more details

Laboratory

• ImmersiveTouch
• Industrial Virtual Reality Institute
• Systems design and prognostics

1024 ERF, (312) 996-0579
4031 SEL, (312) 996 2387