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engineering professor company executive

Prith Banerjee, Indian, American computer company executive, computer engineering professor. Achievements include patents in field. Fellow: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Taylor L. Booth Education award 2001), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Background

Banerjee, Prith was born on July 17, 1960 in India.

Education

B Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, 1981. Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, University Illinois, 1982. Doctor of Philosophy, University Illinois, 1984.

Career

Assistant professor electrical & computer engineering University Illinois, 1985—1989, assistant professor, 1989—1993, professor, 1993—1996. Research associate professor Coordinated Science Laboratory University Illinois, 1989—1993, research professor, 1993—1996. Director computational science & engineering University Illinois, 1994—1996.

Director Center for Parallel & Distributed Computing Northwestern University, since 1996, department chairman & Walter Murphy professor electrical & computer engineering, 1998—2001, 2002—2004. Founder, president, Chief Executive Officer AccelChip Inc., 2000—2002, chief scientist, 2002—2004. Founder, chairman, chief scientist BINACHIP Inc., since 2003.

Distinguished professor, dean College Engineering University Illinois, Chicago, 2004—2007. Executive vice president research, director Himachal Pradesh Labs Hewlett Packard Corporation, Palo Alto, California, since 2007.

Achievements

  • Prith Banerjee has been listed as a noteworthy engineering professor, company executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Taylor L. Booth Education award 2001), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Connections

Married; 1 child.