Indian American to be dean of Chicago engineering college

Author of about 300 publications, Prith Banerjee will take over as the dean of the college of engineering at University of Illinois in Chicago.

Indian American Prith Banerjee, chairman of electrical and computer engineering at Northwestern University, will take over as the dean of the college of engineering at University of Illinois in Chicago (UIC).

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Banerjee previously directed the computational science and engineering programme at UIC's Urbana-Champaign campus. He will assume his new position in August this year, according to a news release.

Banerjee, 43, received a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1987. He also founded AccelChip, a Schaumburg-based developer of products for electronic design automation.

He has authored about 300 publications and has supervised 30 PhD students and 36 MS students.

Banerjee is the recipient of the Frederick Terman Award, the Taylor L Booth Education Award, 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 (IIT), Kharagpur.

Prith received his BTech degree in electronics and electrical engineering from the IIT Kharagpur in August 1981 and the MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in December 1982 and December 1984.