Anuradha Murthy (Anu) Agarwal is an Indian-American electrical engineer specializing in photonic integrated circuits.
[1] Agarwal is originally from India; her mother was a botanist and her father was an academic and documentary filmmaker.
[2] She earned a doctorate in electrical engineering from Boston University in 1994.
[3] Next, she became a postdoctoral researcher at MIT, working there with Lionel Kimerling,[2] and has remained there since, with the exception of three years from 2001 to 2004 working with Clarendon Photonics, where she was developing a novel optical filter.
[3] Agarwal was named a Fellow of Optica, in the 2022 class of fellows, "for pioneering contributions to integrated mid-infrared photonic sensing, detection, imaging, and leadership in training the next generation in photonics manufacturing".