Shomir Banerjee, MD, MSEE
Physician and electrical engineer. Founder of Alpha Centauri Technologies Inc.
I work where medicine and engineering meet. I trained as an electrical engineer before medical school, and I have spent my career building clinical software, connected medical devices, and, more recently, propulsion for small satellites.
My company
You can find my current projects on the Alpha Centauri Technologies website, each with its own status and link.
See all projects at alphacentauritech.com
You can also read my founder page on the company site.
Background
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Baylor University
- MS in Electrical Engineering (Electronic Materials and Devices), University of Cincinnati, where I built a microchip PCR thermocycler and an automated LabVIEW test stand in a MEMS lab
- MD, Wright State University
- Energy-project analysis at Exelon Energy before medicine
Earlier work
- A connected-health device company (2020 to 2022): consulting on an electronic stethoscope and connected health devices.
- A health-IT company (2017 to 2020): built and later re-coded an EMR-based cancer-risk web tool for physicians.
- Lumiata (2014): verified a medical-knowledge inference engine and helped improve its physician interface.
- Side projects: a phone-based bilirubin meter (entry accepted to the 2013 Nokia Sensing XChallenge) and a two-lead EKG monitor prototype (2014).
How I can help
I advise health-tech, medical-device, and engineering teams on product reviews, technical due diligence, prototyping, and AI safety. I also take expert-witness engagements on engineering, medical-device, and health-IT questions. I do not give patient-care, standard-of-care, or injury-causation opinions, and I do not perform medical exams.
Writing and video
I make short videos and companion articles on topics I know well:
- Space propulsion and small satellites
- Engineering and AI systems
- Health technology, explained plainly