[2] Agrawal, who started his career as an engineer at Tata Motors, Pune, did his post-doctoral work at the University of Newcastle, Australia during 2003–04 before joining the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB) as assistant professor in 2004, where he is an institute chair professor at the department of mechanical engineering since 2015.
He studied at St Joseph's College, Allahabad (1979–1992), before joining IIT Kanpur for a BTech in mechanical engineering.
This Blood Plasma Separation microdevice (of two-rupees coin size) performs the function of centrifuge at the microscale.
This exclusive strategy allows the microdevice to cover a wide spectrum of applications, including those that the current filter-based technologies cannot even remotely cater to.
Such niche microdevices, based on innovative design principles, cater to important needs of society and are expected to change the way blood tests are done worldwide in the future.
The development of these accurate higher-order continuum transport equations is expected to rejuvenate the entire subject of hydrodynamics.
Due to these important scientific and technological contributions, Agrawal was invited to serve as editor of three important journals – Scientific Reports, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Sadhana; and elected as Fellow by Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and National Academy of Sciences India (NASI).