Samir Chatterjee (Samir.chatterjee@cgu.edu) is a Professor in the School of Information Systems & Technology and Founding Director of the Network Convergence Laboratory at Claremont Graduate University, California. Prior to that, he taught at the CIS department of J Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, in Atlanta. He holds a B.E (Hons.) in Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from Jadavpur University, India and an M.S and Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science, University of Central Florida. He is widely recognized as an expert in the areas of Next-Generation Networking, Voice and Video over IP, and e-Health technologies. His current research includes the design and implementation of persuasive technologies that can alter human behavior, Telemedicine systems, stress management software and context-aware intervention technologies for managing obesity.
He has published over 100 articles in refereed conferences and scholarly journals including IEEE Network, IEEE J. on Selected Areas in Communications, Communications of the ACM, Journal of MIS, Computer Networks, International Journal of Healthcare Technology & Management, Telemedicine & e-Health Journal, Information Systems Frontiers, JMIS, Information Systems, Computer Communication, IEEE IT Professional, JAMIA, ACM CCR, Communications of AIS, Journal of Internet Technology etc. He is principal investigator on several NSF grants and has received funding from private corporations such as BellSouth, Northrop Grumman and Hitachi for his research. He is the founding Program Chair for the International Conference on Design Science Research in IS&T (DESRIST 2006, 2007). He is the Program Chair for Persuasive 2009 conference. Dr. Chatterjee is a senior IEEE member and member of ACM, AIS and AMIA. He has been an entrepreneur and successfully co-founded a startup company VoiceCore Technologies Inc in 2000.