Dr. Vinod K. Agarwal was an Indian-American businessman and scientist. He was a professor at

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, Canada from 1978 to 1992. He then founded

LogicVision LogicVision, Inc. was an electronic design automation (EDA) company, offering chip, board and system-level Design for Test (DFT) solutions and support to ASIC vendors based in San Jose, California, United States. Founded in 1992, it was acquired b ...

, which he took public in October, 2001, as the first technology IPO following the terrorist attacks earlier that year. Agarwal left LogicVision in 2005 to start SemIndia, a semiconductor company based in India.

Biography

Born to Madhuri Sharan Agrawal and Premvati Agrawal in

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, Agarwal received his undergraduate education at

Birla Institute of Technology and Science Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani) is a Deemed university in Pilani, Jhunjhunu, India. It focuses primarily on higher education and research in engineering and sciences. After expansion to a campus in Dubai, it has b ...

, followed by an M.S. from the

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and a Ph.D. from

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Professorship

Upon completing his Ph.D., Dr. Agarwal joined the faculty of the Computer Science Department at the McGill University in Montreal. He stayed on the faculty for 16 years, eventually retiring as head of the Department of Electrical Engineering

Accolades

Dr. Agarwal has been recognized for his contributions to the field by being named Silicon India's 2002 Entrepreneur of the year, as well as being profiled in Fortune magazine and the Wharton Global Business Forum among other publications and conferences.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Agarwal, Vinod Living people Indian emigrants to the United States American people of Indian descent American businesspeople University of Pittsburgh alumni Johns Hopkins University alumni Year of birth missing (living people)