Dharma P. Agrawal was a communications scientist who specialised in wireless sensor networks.
Since 1998 he has been the Ohio Board of Regents Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computing Systems at the University of Cincinnati.
Agrawal was a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for contributions to parallel system architecture, interconnection networks and computer arithmetic,[3] the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the World Innovation Foundation.
[4] He was a Fulbright Senior Specialist (2002–2007), and was on the ISI Highly Cited Researcher list in 2001.
[citation needed] In 2013 he was named a charter fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.