Prith Banerjee PH D
Prith Banerjee is Chief Technology Officer at ANSYS, a leader in engineering simulation. In this role, he leads the evolution of ANSYS' technology and champions the company's next phase of innovation and growth. Before that, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Schneider Electric. Formerly, he was Managing Director of Global Technology R&D at Accenture. Earlier, he was Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of ABB. Previously, he was senior vice president of research at HP and director of HP Labs. Formerly, he was Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Formerly he was the Walter P. Murphy Professor and Chairman of ECE at Northwestern University. Before that, he was a professor of ECE at the University of Illinois. In 2000, he founded AccelChip, sold to Xilinx Inc. in 2006. During 2005-2011, he was founder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist of BINACHIP.
His research interests are in electronic design automation and parallel computing. He has more than 350 research papers, ten book chapters, and a graduate textbook on Parallel Algorithms for VLSI Computer-Aided Design (Prentice-Hall, 1994). He has also supervised 37 Ph.D. students.
Banerjee currently serves on the Board of Directors of Turntide Technologies. He has served on the Board of Directors of Cray, Inc., Cubic Corporation, the Anita Borg Institute, the Computer Science Board of the National Academy of Engineering. He has also served on the Technical Advisory Boards of Ambit, Atrenta, Calypto, Cypress, Ingram Micro, and Virsec. He was listed in the FastCompany list of 100 top business leaders in 2009. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, and IEEE and a recipient of the 1996 ASEE Terman Award and the 1987 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award. He received a B.Tech. (President's Gold Medalist) in electronics engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana.
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