She is the Anant M. Kshirsagar Collegiate Research Professor of Biostatistics and Director of the Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy (CHOP) at the University of Michigan.
Banerjee was born and raised in India to academic parents; her father was a professor of English literature and her mother taught Bengali language.
[3] Upon completing her PhD, Banerjee accepted a faculty position at Wayne State University where she worked on an National Institutes of Health-funded prostate cancer project.
"[4] In order to work cohesively with doctors on her prostate cancer project, Banerjee began taking biology classes and shadowing colleagues in clinics to understand the science.
[9] In 2018, Banerjee was appointed the Anant M. Kshirsagar Collegiate Professor for a five-year term in recognition of her "work on statistical methodology that have been applied to many important areas of health care and policy.