Suman Banerjee is an Indian computer scientist and businessman working as the David J. DeWitt Professor of

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at the

University of Wisconsin–Madison A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which ...

Education

Banerjee earned a Bachelor of Technology degree in computer science and engineering from

IIT Kanpur The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) Hindi: भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान कानपुर) is a public institute of technology located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It wa ...

in 1996, followed by a Master of Science and PhD in computer science from the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of ...

Career

Banerjee worked as an assistant and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2004 to 2014. He was the CTO and co-founder of StratusWorX, a company that developed cloud workspace software. In July 2020,

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acquired StratusWorX and the company's patent portfolio. Banerjee was named an

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in 2020 for his contributions to research in the area of wireless systems and an IEEE Fellow in 2022 for his contributions to the "development of tools to improve performance and usability of wireless systems". He has been cited more than 28,000 times (April 2021).

References

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