Dharma P. Agrawal was a communications scientist who specialised in

wireless sensor networks Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) refer to networks of spatially dispersed and dedicated sensors that monitor and record the physical conditions of the environment and forward the collected data to a central location. WSNs can measure environmental c ...

. Since 1998 he has been the

Ohio Board of Regents The Ohio Board of Regents was created in 1963 by the Ohio General Assembly to: provide higher education policy advice to the Governor of Ohio and the Ohio General Assembly; develop a strategy involving Ohio's public and independent colleges and uni ...

Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computing Systems at the

University of Cincinnati The University of Cincinnati (UC or Cincinnati) is a public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1819 as Cincinnati College, it is the oldest institution of higher education in Cincinnati and has an annual enrollment of over 44,00 ...

. He has published work on wireless sensor networks and ad-hoc computing, and was one of the editors of the ''Encyclopedia on Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing'' in 2009.

Affiliations and awards

Agrawal was a fellow of the

National Academy of Inventors The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) is a US non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging inventors in academia, following the model of the National Academies of the United States. It was founded at the University of South Florida in 2010. ...

, the

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

, the

Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional member ...

, the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...

and the World Innovation Foundation. Agrawal received the Third Millennium Medal of the

IEEE Computer Society The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operati ...

in 2000, and the

Harry H. Goode Memorial Award The Harry H. Goode Memorial Award is an IEEE Computer Society The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated discipline ...

of the same society in 2008. He was a

Fulbright The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of ...

Senior Specialist (2002–2007), and was on the

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list in 2001. He received the Hind Rattan of the NRI Welfare Society of India in 2011. In 2013 he was named a charter fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Agrawal, Dharma University of Cincinnati faculty Living people Fellow Members of the IEEE École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne alumni Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Year of birth missing (living people) National Institute of Technology, Raipur alumni