Professor; Director of Holography and Metamaterials Laboratory
Dr. Partha P. Banerjee is Professor and Director of Electro-Optics Program, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Dayton. He was Chair of the ECE department at the University of Dayton from 2000-2005. Prior to that, he was at the University of Alabama in Huntsville from 1991-2000, and at Syracuse University from 1984-1991. He received his B.Tech. in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1979, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1980 and 1983, respectively. His areas of research interest are digital holography, metamaterials, nonlinear optics, photorefractives, and acousto-optics. He has authored/co-authored 5 textbooks, 10 book chapters, over 120 refereed journal articles, and over 150 conference papers/presentations. He was general co-chair of OSA’s Digital Holography topical meeting in 2010, and is topical editor of Applied Optics. He is Fellow of OSA, SPIE and IoP, and is a senior member of IEEE. He received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1987.