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Prithviraj Banerjee Adjunct Professor banerjee@ece.northwestern.edu Personal Website: tigger.uic.edu/~prith

Prith Banerjee is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University. He joined the ECE department in 1996. 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. During 2000-02, he also served as Founder, President and CEO of a startup company called AccelChip. He has authored about 300 publications in these areas, and has supervised 30 Ph.D. students and 36 M.S. students. Dr. Banerjee is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the ACM. He is the recipient of the Frederick Terman Award from the IEEE, the Taylor L. Booth Education Award from the ASEE, the NSF Presidential Young Investigator award, the IBM Young Faculty Development Award, and the President of India Gold Medal from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Prith received his B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in August 1981, and the M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in December 1982 and December 1984 . Research Interests Parallel Algorithms for VLSI Computer-Aided Design Applications, Parallelizing Compilers for Distributed Memory Multiprocessors, Compilers for Adaptive Computing, Power-Aware Architecture and Compilation Techniques. See Video.

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