Dr. Ritwik Banerjee
is a computer science researcher and educator, specializing in computational linguistics and applications of machine learning to natural language semantics and pragmatics.
Dr. Ritwik Banerjee is a Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook, where he has been engaged in research and teaching since 2016.
He is, first and foremost, a computational linguist who investigates mathematical and statistical approaches to natural language understanding. He is also passionate about education and teaching in computer science and mathematics, and actively engages in mentoring students at both the undergraduate and graduate (M.S. and Ph.D.) education levels. His scientific works can be found on
News & Events
Jan 10, 2024 – The Department of Medicine at Stony Brook University funds Banerjee's pilot project to use Natural Language Processing to predict acute kidney injury in critically ill patients.
Sep 5, 2023 – The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) funds Banerjee for a collaborative project to investigate live medical data against privacy laws.
Dec 8, 2022 – Natural Language Representation: What’s next for embeddings? Invited speaker at the IEEE CIS Summer School: Research Trends in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Engineering Challenges (National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India)
Nov 1, 2022 – Deception in Medical Information across Natural Language Genres: invited talk at the Brookhaven National Laboratory AI/ML Working Group seminar.
Sep 9, 2022 – New article published in the ACM Journal of Data & Information Quality invited to the ACM Showcase.
Mar 12, 2022 – Research on medical misinformation in our everyday lives featured by the Institute for AI-Driven Discovery and Innovation.
Dec 15, 2021 – Panel talk at the 7th IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC): Pandemic 2023 – An Information Technology Retrospective.
Nov 29, 2021 – Colloquium speaker at the Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University: Deception and misinformation across natural language genres.
Older News & Events
Aug 07, 2019 – Collaboration (with Radiology) to improve follow-up of incidental findings in reports, receives the Stony Brook School of Medicine TRO Program Award.
Jun 18, 2019 – Research by Dr. Banerjee and his students on the identification of check-worthy facts gets nominated as a "Best of the Labs" paper, and invited to CLEF 2019.
May 22, 2018 – The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) funds Dr. Banerjee's project on tracking semantic change in medical information.
May 15, 2018 – As part of the CLEF 2018 Fact Checking Lab, the team Prise de Fer led by Dr. Banerjee achieves the best results in identifying check-worthy claims.
Feb 26, 2018 – Colloquium speaker at the Digital Humanities Series, Stony Brook University Libraries: Social Identities in Text.
Nov 8, 2015 - Improved Patient Care System receives Best Paper Award at IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics.