Born in the UK, and educated in India and the US,[1] she works in the US as vice president for research at VMware.
[2] Banerjee was born in the UK but grew up in Mumbai, India;[1] she has bachelor's and master's degrees from IIT Bombay.
[2] She entered the USC Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California, intending to study in its Communications Sciences Institute, but soon switched to computer networks and completed a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1993.
[1] Her dissertation, Distributed database systems in high-speed networks, was supervised by Victor O.
[4] Banerjee was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2022, "for leadership in programmable and energy efficient networks".