Ashis Banerjee

Ashis G. Banerjee is an Associate Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington (UW). Prior to joining UW, he was a Research Scientist at GE Global Research and a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT. He obtained his Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park, and B.Tech. in Manufacturing Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. Dr. Banerjee has published more than seventy articles on a broad range of research topics spanning AI-enabled robotics, autonomous systems, predictive analytics, and workplace ergonomics. He has received several honors including the 2026 AAAI Classic Paper Award, 2019 Amazon Research Award, 2012 Most Cited Paper Award from the Computer-Aided Design journal, and 2009 Best Mechanical Engineering Dissertation Award at UMD. He is an elected Senior Member of the IEEE, and serves as a Senior Editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters journal.