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Dharma Agrawal

1945 – 2021

Indian American communications scientist and wireless sensor networks expert

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Lived 1945 – 2021 (aged 75–76). Dharma Agrawal was an American and Indian researcher and computer scientist.

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. 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 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for contributions to parallel system architecture, interconnection networks and computer arithmetic, the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the World Innovation Foundation. He was a Fulbright Senior Specialist (2002–2007), and was on the ISI Highly Cited Researcher 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.

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Important facts

Born
1945
Birth century
Nationality
Education
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, National Institute of Technology Raipur, Carnegie Mellon University
Employers
University of Cincinnati
Awards
Harry H. Goode Memorial Award; IEEE Fellow; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; ACM Fellow; National Academy of Inventors
Also known as
Dharma Prakash Agrawal, Dharma P. Agrawal

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People whose lives overlapped Dharma Agrawal's

Frequently asked questions

Who was Dharma Agrawal?

Indian American communications scientist and wireless sensor networks expert

When was Dharma Agrawal born?

Dharma Agrawal was born in 1945.

When did Dharma Agrawal die?

Dharma Agrawal died on 15 February 2021.

What was Dharma Agrawal's occupation?

Dharma Agrawal was a researcher and computer scientist.

What nationality was Dharma Agrawal?

Dharma Agrawal was American and Indian.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Dharma Agrawal

· Wikidata: Q19871702

· DBpedia: Dharma Agrawal

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