Samir Chatterjee

Prof. Samir Chatterjee, Ph.D. Samir Chatterjee is Professor and Fletcher Jones Chair of Design, Technology & Management at CGU’s Center for Information Systems & Technology (CISAT) at the Claremont Graduate University. He is the founding director of IDEA Labs (Innovations Design Empowerment Applications Laboratory). In 2015, he was awarded the distinguished lifetime achievement award for contributions to Design Science Research. He has been a visiting scholar at Indian Institute of Management, (Ahmadabad & Kolkata), Kanwal Rekhi School of IT at IIT Mumbai, Alto University, Finland and CBS Copenhagen. Since 2017 Spring Semester, he is also an Adjunct Professor of Design & Innovation at USC Iovine & Young Academy.

Chatterjee’s initial research focused on technical algorithm design in high-speed networks such as congestion control in ATM networks, performance of TCP over asymmetric networks and graph models. In 2000-2001 he became active in VoIP area and helped the SIP standardization process which eventually led to the formation of ITU-T standard known as H.350 that is a standard feature in today’s Cisco and Polycom VC products. Today his work is highly transdisciplinary that crosses domains such as computer science, design thinking, persuasive technology, evaluation, health engineering and behavior psychology.

His entry into healthcare field has been via Telemedicine. Today he leads the emerging field of Persuasive Technology which is a stimulating interdisciplinary research field that focuses on how interactive technologies and services can be designed to influence people’s attitudes and support positive behavior change. His current projects include designing ICT and mobile solutions to address chronic disease management such as obesity/diabetes, heart-failure, oral health hygiene and he is also working closely with Loma Linda Medical center on a remote monitoring technology to assist Congestive Heart Failure patients.

Chatterjee received a B. Tech (Hons) in Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering (1988) from Jadavpur University, India; an MS (1991) and a PhD (1994) in Computer Science from the School of Computer Science, University of Central Florida . He was Co-founder & Chairman of VoiceCore Technologies Inc., which he formed back in 2001. In 2013, he founded DCL Health (Dr. Chatterjee’s Laboratories Health LLC), a wireless healthcare startup.