PRITH BANERJEE Effective August 1, 2007, Prith's contact information has changed to: Senior Vice President of Research and Director, HP Labs Hewlett Packard Company 1501 Page Mill Road Building 3U, MS 1179 Palo Alto, CA-94304 PH: (650) 857-8734 FAX: (650) 857-3991 CELL: (847) 757-8708 EMAIL: prith.banerjee@hp.com URL: www.hpl.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/bios/banerjee.html

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

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 helps to chart technical strategies for the company, and he heads HP Labs, which has seven locations worldwide.

Formerly, he was the Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). In this role, he led the UIC College of Engineering which consists of about 115 faculty in six engineering departments, 1,550 undergraduate and 900 graduate students, and $21 million in annual research funding.

He is also the Founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist of BINACHIP Inc. (www.binachip..com), a developer of products and services in electronic design automation.

Previously, Dr. Banerjee was the Walter P. Murphy Professor and chairman of electrical and computer engineering at Northwestern University, where he was also director of the Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing. 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, Prith founded AccelChip, Inc., (www.accelchip.com) a developer of products and services for electronic design automation. He served as president and CEO of AccelChip while on leave from Northwestern from 2000 to 2002, during which time he raised $2.3 million of financing, helped the company build its first product and saw the company grow to 25 employees and $800,000 in revenues. He has remained as a consultant to AccelChip in the role of chief scientist. In addition, he has been on the Technical Advisory Boards of many companies such as Atrenta, Calypto Design Systems, and Ambit Design Systems.

Dr. Banerjee’s research interests are in VLSI computer aided design, parallel computing, and compilers, and is the author of about 300 research papers in these areas, and is the author of a book entitled "Parallel Algorithms for VLSI CAD”. He has supervised 35 Ph.D. and 40M.S. student theses thus far. He has served as the Program Chair, General Chair, and Program Committee of more than 50 conferences in the past 20 years and has served as Associate Editor of four journals.

Prith has received numerous awards and honors during his career. He became a Fellow of the American Association of Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2005. He received the IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award from the IEEE Computer Society in 2001. He became a Fellow of the ACM in 2000. He was the recipient of the 1996 Frederick Emmons Terman Award of ASEE's Electrical Engineering Division. He was elected to the Fellow grade of IEEE in 1995. He received the University Scholar award from the University of Illinois for in 1993, the Senior Xerox Research Award in 1992, the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigators' Award in 1987, the IBM Young Faculty Development Award in 1986, and the President of India Gold Medal from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 1981

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.