Dr. Dilip K. Banerji Memorial Scholarship

Award Overview

Value of the award:
$4,000
Number of awards:
1
Award frequency:
Annual
Level or program of study:
Graduate
Application Type:
Online Scholarship and Bursaries portal, accessible via uoZone.
Application Deadline:
November 3
Renewable:
No

Purpose of this Award

To provide an annual scholarship to international graduate students at the University of Ottawa who demonstrate financial need and academic excellence. The award supports students whose promise and dedication reflect Dr. Dilip Kumar Banerji’s  legacy of intellectual curiosity, perseverance and commitment to advanced education.

Eligibility Criteria

The candidate must:

  1. be an international student
  2. be enrolled as a full-time graduate student in the Faculty of Engineering, at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Ottawa
  3. demonstrate financial need, as determined by the Financial Aid and Awards Service of the University of Ottawa
  4. demonstrate academic excellence

How to Apply

Submitted in the Online Scholarship and Bursaries portal, accessible via uoZone, and must include:

  1. the Financial Questionnaire

About this Award

This scholarship was generously established in memory of the late Dr. Dilip Kumar Banerji. Born in 1943 in Kanpur, India, Dr. Banerji was a member of the inaugural graduating class of IIT Kanpur, earning a BTech degree in electrical engineering in 1965.​
That same year, he came to Canada on a scholarship to pursue a master’s in electrical engineering at the University of Ottawa, which he completed in 1967. He later earned a PhD in computer science at the University of Waterloo in 1971. He began his career at Bell Northern Research and taught at the University of Ottawa for seven years as an assistant, and then associate, professor, before returning to India in 1978 to help establish the country’s first specialized computer science department, at Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he served as a professor and dean.​
In 1983, he returned to Canada and joined the University of Guelph, where he worked as a professor for 26 years. An innovator in the area of computer chip design tools, he was recognized in 2005 as a Pioneer of Computing by the IBM Center for Advanced Studies and the National Research Council.