Prith Banerjee, Founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist

In this role, Prith is responsible for the strategic technical directions for the company and provides guidance to the development of the BINACHIP-FPGA tool. He is also currently the Senior Vice President of Research and Director of Hewlett Packard Labs.

Previously, he was the Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Prior to that, Prith was the Walter P. Murphy Professor and Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Previously, 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 2001-2002, he was on leave from Northwestern, and served as Founder, President and CEO of AccelChip (www.accelchip.com). Prith has served on the Technical Advisory Boards of many startup technology companies such as Atrenta, Calypto Design Systems, and Ambit Design Systems. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, ACM and IEEE and a recipient of the 1996 American Society for Engineering Education Terman Award and the 1987 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. Prith's expertise is in electronic design automation tools, and compilers; he 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 42 M.S. students thus far.

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.

David C. Zaretsky, Founder, Chief Executive Officer

David Zaretsky is the co-founder and CEO of Binachip. In this role, he is responsible for setting the strategic vision for the company, hiring and managing its employees, business and product development, marketing, sales, industrial partners, and investor relations.

David's expertise is in hardware/software co-design, computer architecture, software compilers, and electronic design automation tools. He has prior experience as a software engineer at Xilinx Research Labs and AccelChip, Inc. David is the primary architect of the BINACHIP-FPGA software tool, and is responsible for the development of the software tool flow and compiler optimizations.

David received B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from Northwestern University in 2000, and received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Northwestern University in 2005 and 2001. David's Ph.D. research was related to the automatic translation of software binaries into hardware and the development of the FREEDOM compiler, which is the basis of the BINACHIP-FPGA tool. He has authored 13 publications in this area of research.

Gaurav Mittal, Founder, President

Gaurav Mittal is the co-founder and President of Binachip. He is the Chief Operations Officer, responsible for strategic planning, directing research and product development, customer and investor relations, sales management, and hiring and managing its employees.

Gaurav is the primary architect of the BINACHIP-FPGA software tool, and is responsible for the compiler development, hardware-software partitioning, and advanced optimizations in the tool.

Gaurav received his B.E. (Hons) in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, in June 1999. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Northwestern University in 2004 and 2001. Gaurav's Ph.D. thesis was related to the areas of binary translation, decompilation, and computer architecture. He was involved in the development of the FREEDOM compiler, which is the basis of the BINACHIP-FPGA software tool.