Banerjee receives Booth Award

Prithviraj Banerjee, Walter P. Murphy Professor and chair of electrical and computer engineering, has been named the recipient of the 2001 Taylor Booth Outstanding Educator Award by the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society.

The award is given for "outstanding contributions in advancing computer science and engineering education through research, teaching, writing a graduate level textbook, and developing a new computational science and engineering graduate program. It will be presented at an IEEE board meeting.

The director of the Northwestern Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing, Banerjee leads the PARADIGM compiler project for compiling programs for distributed memory multicomputers; the ProperCAD project for portable parallel VLSI CAD applications, the MATCH project, on a MATLAB compilation environment for adaptive computing, and the PACT project on power aware compiler and architectural technology. Banerjee is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and of the IEEE.

He has received the American Society of Engineering Education’s Frederick Terman Award and a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, among others.