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 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, a developer of products for electronic design automation, which was sold to Xilinx Inc. in 2006.

Banerjee’s research interests are in VLSI computer-aided design, parallel computing and compilers, and he is the author of about 350 research papers in these areas.

Banerjee has served on the technical advisory boards of companies such as Ambit, Atrenta and Calypto.  He currently serves on the Board of the Anita Borg Institute and the NAE Computer Science Board.

He was listed in the FastCompany list of 100 top business leaders in 2009.

He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, ACM and IEEE 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 B.Tech. in electronics and electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, and a master of science and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.