BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Agrawal is serving as the Professor of Computer Science in the department of Computer Science (CS), University of Cincinnati, OH. He was a Visiting Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University, on sabbatical leave during Autumn 2006 and Winter 2007 quarters. He has been a faculty member at Wayne State University, (1977-1982) and North Carolina State University, (1982-1998). He has been a consultant to the General Dynamics Land Systems Division, Battelle, Inc., and the U.S. Army. He has held visiting appointments at AIRMICS, Atlanta, GA, and the AT&T Advanced Communications Laboratory, Whippany, NJ. He has published a number of papers in the areas of Parallel System Architecture, Multicomputer Networks, Routing Techniques, Parallelism Detection and Scheduling Techniques, Reliability of Real-Time Distributed Systems, Modeling of C-MOS Circuits, and Computer Arithmetic. His recent research interests include resource allocation and security in mesh networks, efficient query processing and security in sensor networks, and heterogeneous wireless networks. He has five approved patents and eighteen patent filings in the area of wireless cellular networks. In 1994, as the Chair of the Technical Committee on Computer Architecture, IEEE Computer Society, he started a new symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture and has become most important meeting for the research community. Recently, he took an initiative in starting a new meeting in Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems area, MASS-2004. The second, third and fourth meetings were held in Washington DC, Vancouver (Canada) and Pisa (Italy) respectively. His recent contribution in the form of a co-authored introductory text book on Wireless and Mobile Computing has been widely accepted throughout the world and a second edition has just been published. This book has been translated in to Korean language and has been reprinted both in China and India. His new co-authored book on Ad hoc and Sensor Networks was published in spring of 2006. He has also been named as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Middleware and query processing in sensor networks

• Efficient path determination in heterogeneous wireless networks

• Distributed key management and security in ad hoc and sensor networks

• Smart multiple beam directional antennas for enhanced QoS

• Resource allocation in mesh networks

EDUCATION

• D.Sc. of Technology in Electrical Engineering
  Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, April 1975
  D.Sc. Dissertation Title, "Some Aspects of Fast Arithmetic Computing Techniques"

• M.E. (Honors) in Electronics and Communications Engineering
  University of Roorkee (now IIT), Roorkee, India, August 1968

• B.E. (1st Rank) in Electrical Engineering
  Ravishankar University, Raipur, India, April 1966