11 Facts About Prith Banerjee

Prith Banerjee was formerly a senior vice president of research at Hewlett Packard and director of HP Labs.

Prith Banerjee began his career in academia, in which he served 22 years.

Prith Banerjee served at AccelChip Inc as president and CEO, raising $2.3 million in financing, helping the company build its first product and guiding the company's growth to 25 employees and $800,000 in revenues.

Prith Banerjee served at BINACHP as chairman and chief scientist.

Additionally, Prith Banerjee has served on the technical advisory boards of several companies, including Ambit Design Systems, Atrenta and Calypto Design Systems.

Prith Banerjee has published approximately 350 papers in the areas of VLSI computer aided design, parallel computing, and compilers.

Prith Banerjee has authored a book, Parallel Algorithms for VLSI CAD and served as associate editor of four journals.

Prith Banerjee headed up HP Labs, the company's central research organization, which had seven locations worldwide.

Prith Banerjee has dismissed the cast-offs as interesting science projects and championed the survivors as big bets with the most commercial potential.

Prith Banerjee is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Cray, Inc and CUBIC systems.

Prith Banerjee is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.