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Prithviraj Banerjee

Chief Technology Officer, Ansys

Search every verified Prithviraj Banerjee interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Prithviraj Banerjee, Chief Technology Officer at Ansys, discussed the company's approach to simulation and artificial intelligence in a December 2024 podcast. He described Ansys as a leading modeling and simulation company that uses physics-based methods such as finite element and finite volume techniques. Banerjee stated that his role involves examining the future of simulation and technologies like AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing to drive future products. He noted that a key challenge is balancing accuracy and speed in simulation tools. Banerjee outlined Ansys's development of a platform called SimAI, which allows customers to train AI models on their own design problems, reducing simulation time for later designs. He also described a longer-term vision for foundational AI models for physics, analogous to large language models, that would be trained by Ansys on a broad set of physical data. Banerjee acknowledged that building such models would require access to customer data and discussed potential business models involving anonymized data sharing with compensation. He also mentioned that quantum computing could accelerate simulation within a decadeasi.

Recent appearances

  • Prith Banerjee, Synopsys | AMD Advancing AI 2026

    July 23, 2026 · 📺 SiliconANGLE theCUBE

    In this interview from AMD Advancing AI 2026 in San Francisco, Prith Banerjee, senior vice president of innovation at Synopsys, joins theCUBE's Dave Vellante and Bob O'Donnell to discuss how AI and co-design are taming the exploding complexity of modern chip and system design. Banerjee unpacks the vision behind Synopsys' $35 billion acquisition of Ansys, positioning the combined company as a "Silicon to Systems" provider across automotive, aerospace, energy, industrials and healthcare. He details how digital twins let engineers co-design chips alongside the systems they power — from a 300 bill…

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  • The $35B Bet on Physical AI: Synopsys SVP Prith Banerjee on Agentic AI & The Future of Chips

    June 17, 2026 · 📺 Ctrl Alt Podcast With Vida Patil

    The $35 Billion Question: What happens when the company designing the brains of intelligent devices acquires the company simulating their physical reality? In this episode of the Control Alt Podcast, we sit down with Prith Banerjee, Senior Vice President of Innovation at Synopsys and former CTO at Ansys, ABB, and HP Labs. Prith breaks down the monumental shift from designing isolated chips to architecting intelligent, software-defined systems and why it led to the historic $35B Synopsys Ansys acquisition. We cut through the hype to explore how "Agentic AI" and Level 4 autonomous workflows ar…

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  • Partner Testimonial : Dr. Prith Banerjee SVP of Innovation and Member (ELT) Talks About Dyad

    May 29, 2026 · 📺 JuliaHub

    As the world shifts toward complex, intelligent systems—from software-defined vehicles and autonomous drones to next-generation data centers—engineering teams face an immense challenge: how do you build perfectly accurate digital twins of hardware operating in messy, real-world environments? In this video, Dr. Prith Banerjee, Senior Vice President of Innovation at Synopsys, outlines the monumental technology partnership between Synopsys and JuliaHub. While data-driven analytics or pure physics simulations independently yield limited accuracy, combining them into a "hybrid digital twin" unlock…

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  • Prith Banerjee: Synopsys's Bold Vision for the Future of Engineering

    May 11, 2026 · 📺 Ayna Insights

    On this episode of The Titanium Economy podcast Vineet Gupta, President and Head of Semiconductor at Ayna talks to Prith Banerjee, Senior Vice President of Innovation at Synopsys. They explore how Synopsys is evolving from a chip design company into a leader in full system engineering, driven by its ANSYS acquisition and AI partnerships. It highlights how AI, GPUs, and digital twins are transforming the way complex products - from semiconductors to autonomous vehicles - are designed and tested. They discuss how we are shifting toward highly automated, AI-powered engineering that increases spee…

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  • Synopsys SVP of Innovation Dr. Prith Banerjee on the Future of Agentic Engineering | Sachin Syal

    April 02, 2026 · 📺 Sachin Syal's "The O'ChakDe Show"

    Today our very special guest is Dr. Prith Banerjee, who is the Senior Vice President of the Synopsys Innovation Group and a member of the Executive Leadership Team at Synopsys. Prith was the CTO of Ansys, which was acquired by Synopsys for $35 billion, where he led the evolution of ANSYS' technology and championed the company's next phase of innovation and growth. Prith is also an ex-SVP of Research and Director at HP Labs. In addition, he was Accenture’s Managing Director of Global Technology R&D and served as Schneider Electric’s EVP & CTO. Before tech, Prith was a Professor of Electrical an…

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  • Engineering the AI Revolution I Prith Banerjee, Synopsys I LIVE at IndiaAI Impact Summit’26

    March 09, 2026 · 📺 CAIO AI Leadership Podcast

    Recorded live at the Indian AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, this episode of Chief AI Officer Connect features Prith Banerjee, SVP of Innovation, Synopsys - in a powerful conversation on turning AI ambition into enterprise impact. With a career spanning global enterprises, research institutions, and deep-tech innovation, Prith brings clarity to what it truly takes to operationalise AI at scale. In this episode, we explore: 🔹 Building innovation ecosystems within large organizations 🔹 Moving AI from research labs to real-world deployment 🔹 The evolving mandate of the Chief AI Officer 🔹 Bal…

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  • On Global AI Lens | Synopsys' Prith Banerjee Decodes Next-Gen AI & M&A in AI I India AI Summit 2026

    February 12, 2026 · 📺 CNBC-TV18

    On Global AI Lens, Prith Banerjee, Senior VP (Innovation) at Synopsys, discusses the significance of investing in AI, following Synopsys’ recent deal with Ansys. #ai #nextgenai #aideals #techindustry #innovation #artificialintelligence #cnbctv18 #businessnews #businessnewstoday #businessnewsinenglish 🔴CNBC TV18 LIVE TV: https://youtube.com/live/P857H4ej-MQ SUBSCRIBE to our Channel: https://bit.ly/3nvEcxf --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 👑 Check Out Top CNBC TV18 Playlist Videos: 🔹   • Young Turks Reloa…

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  • 2025 09 Ansys Sim World

    September 17, 2025 · 📺 DEstreaming

    Ansys Simulation World 2025, Silicon Valley. This month, Ansys Simulation World took place in the heart of Silicon Valley, in the local Hyatt Regency hotel that also doubles as the convention center. One of the keynote speakers was Prith Banerjee, former CTO of Ansys, current Senior VP of Simulation and Analysis Incubation Group at Synopsys. Banerjee discussed simulation's evolution from physical prototyping with clay models to the current use of AI-driven tools.

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  • JuliaCon 2025: Prith Banerjee (Ansys CTO) and JuliaHub's new Dyad Product

    August 11, 2025 · 📺 JuliaHub

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  • Episode 052: A Deep Dive Into Design & Technology in the Ansys World

    May 27, 2025 · 📺 PADT Inc

    In this episode, your host and Co-Founder of PADT, Eric Miller is joined by ANSYS CTO Prith Banerjee and VP/General Manager of the Design Business Unit Mark Hindsbo, for a discussion of their roles at the company, what trends they see coming from various industries working with simulation, and how Ansys continues to help their customers by providing valuable solutions in response to those trends.  If you have any questions, comments, or would like to suggest a topic for the next episode, shoot us an email at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])  we would love to hear from you!

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  • S2, EP6 - Dr. Prith Banerjee - ANSYS CTO

    December 15, 2024 · 📺 DrNeilAshton

    In this episode of the Neil Ashton Podcast, Dr. Prith Banerjee, CTO of Ansys, shares his extensive journey from academia to the corporate world, discussing the interplay between academia and industry, the role of startups in innovation, and the transformative potential of AI and ML in simulation. He emphasizes the importance of solving real-world problems and the need for collaboration between academia, startups, and large corporations to foster disruptive innovation. He discusses innovative business models for data sharing, the intersection of data-driven and physics-informed approaches, the…

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  • Code to Conquer with Rajeev Bhatia; EP4 - Prith Banerjee talks about tech in visualization industry

    November 15, 2024 · 📺 BPK Tech

    00:00 - Introduction 01:30 - What is Simulation In Tech 04:30 - The Team at ANSYS 06:38 - Solving the Physics Problem Through Simulation 09:10 - Using AI/ML in Simulation 11:52 - Generative AI 13:45 - Building the Gen AI Model 15:25 - Non-existent Innovations in the Industry 18:10 - Handling Teams and The Work Culture at ANSYS 22:42 - Talking about Prith's Book 26:09 - Investments in Startups and Disruptive Innovations 29:30 - Rapid Fire' In this talk, Prith Banerjee talks about the future of technology in Simulation Industries.

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Notable quotes

“In the past, you designed a new chip every maybe 3 years. Now, Nvidia, Meta, they're all talking about designing a brand new chip every year. And it's not a chip with a million transistors, a chip with a billion transistors with a 100 million transistors. So, the complexity of the chip has increased. And the pace of innovation has increased. So imagine that if one human for designing a one million transistor chip, it”

“So what Nvidia noticed is hey the world is now being transformed into what is sort of physical AI which is the world around us is autonomous driving or robotics and so on and as the robot interacts with its environment the environment interacts with is not words as tokens as chat GPT or images as tokens as Delhi or videos as tokens as in Sora it's a whole new world. It's world physics models, right? And the physics m”

“The rational behind the deal is the fact that the intelligence systems that we see around us, right? In any industry from either automotive, aerospace, healthcare, energy, industrials, every one of those industries has. So suppose you're looking at a car, that car is a software-defined car, right? So there's a piece of some 10 million lines of code that is running on that car, on that chip to make that car autonomous”

“The bad part is what we have to be concerned about is as you are creating... Suppose you are creating a new music, right? We were talking about Indian classical music. I say, 'Hey, develop a new music that sounds like sitar, like Ravi Shankar, right?' And then it's created that and then you claim that to be your music. You are actually infringing the copyright of Ravi Shankar who created that music in the first place”

“A very very important thing from the uh summit was AI is an incredible opportunity. It is a really disruptive thing but in the hands of rogue actors it can be dangerous. I mean actually Sam Alman yesterday said that just like in the nuclear industry nuclear power is really good but nuclear power can be bad right? you can do some bad thing and so there is some regulatory authorities right the the atomic energy commiss”

“India created Aadhaar, right? The UPI thing, right? And because of it, you were I mean a farmer who 10 years ago who did not even know how to use a cell phone, right? Who had you who could not even open a bank account can actually take payments, right? This is a beautiful infrastructure that has been created. But the can the same farmer used AI right with aonomy with all the the physical AI models says that here is a”

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