Prith Banerjee

Biography

Prith Banerjee is senior vice president of research at HP and director of HP Labs, the company’s central research organization. In these roles, he assists the HP executive vice president of strategy and technology in charting technical strategies for the company, and he heads HP Labs, which has seven locations worldwide.

Most recently, Banerjee was dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also is the founder, chairman and chief scientist of BINACHIP Inc., a developer of products and services in electronic design automation.

Previously, Banerjee was the Walter P. Murphy Professor and chairman of electrical and computer engineering at Northwestern University. Prior to that, he was the director of the Computational Science and Engineering program and professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

In 2000, Banerjee founded AccelChip Inc., a developer of products and services for electronic design automation, which was sold to Xilinx Inc. in 2006.

Banerjee’s research interests are in very-large-scale integration (VLSI) computer-aided design, parallel computing and compilers, and he is the author of about 300 research papers in these areas.

Banerjee currently serves on the Computer Science Advisory Board of the National Academy of Engineering and the advisory board for the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. In the past, he has served on the technical advisory boards of companies such as Ambit Design Systems, Atrenta and Calypto Design Systems.

Banerjee is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a recipient of the 1996 American Society for Engineering Education Terman Award and the 1987 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award.

He received a Bachelor of Technology in electronics and electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India, and a Master of Science and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Research interests

Banerjee's research interests are in VLSI computer-aided design, parallel computing and compilers, and he is the author of about 300 research papers in these areas, as well as the book, Parallel Algorithms for VLSI CAD.

Awards

IEEE Fellow

For contributions to the application of parallel computing to computer-aided design of VLSI circuits (1995)

ACM Fellow

For contributions in parallel computing, specifically in the design of parallel algorithms for VLSI CAD, and the development of parallelizing compiler techniques for distributed memory multiprocessors (2000)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

For contributions to the design of parallel algorithms for VLSI computer-aided design, parallelizing compilers, and compilation of high-level language applications to hardware (2005)

American Society for Engineering Education Electrical Engineering Division Frederick Emmons Terman award

For publishing the textbook "Parallel Algorithms for VLSI CAD" (1996)

IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award

For outstanding contributions in advancing computer science and engineering education through research, teaching, writing a graduate level textbook, and developing a new computational science and engineering graduate program (2000)

National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigators' Award

For research in the areas of parallel algorithms and architectures (1987)