Scholar
Ritwik Banerjee
Google Scholar ID: 2LCxkUIAAAAJ
Stony Brook University
Citations & Impact
Citations
744
H-index
10
i10-index
10
Publications
20
Co-authors
33
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of two NSF EAGER grants for innovative work in medical privacy and semantic shifts in information.
- January 2025: Funded by Stony Brook’s AI Innovation Institute for 'A Pragmatic Approach to AI for Digital Media Integrity'.
- January 2024: Pilot Grant from Stony Brook School of Medicine for NLP-based prediction of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients.
- September 2023: NSF SaTC grant to investigate live medical data against privacy laws.
- October 2022 & March 2022: Featured by the Institute for AI-Driven Discovery and Innovation for research on COVID-19 misinformation and medical misinformation.
- September 2022: Research showcase on misleading citations in social media.
- Invited talks at Brookhaven National Laboratory, NIT Jaipur, Colorado State University, and others.
- August 2019: Pilot Grant Award from Stony Brook School of Medicine.
Background
- Computer science researcher and educator specializing in computational linguistics and its applications to privacy, law, discourse, argumentation, semantics, and pragmatics.
- Focuses on natural language processing (NLP) and AI-driven healthcare, aiming to personalize patient care through AI.
- Explores how machine learning and computational linguistics can analyze clinical data, tailor treatments, predict diseases like chronic kidney disease, and reduce adverse drug events.
- Also contributes to misinformation detection, forensic linguistics, and computational argumentation.
- Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University (SUNY) since 2016, affiliated with the AI Innovation Institute.
- Leads the Social & Computational Intelligence Research (SCIRE) group and mentors undergraduate, M.S., and Ph.D. students.
