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Lecturer Auburn University |
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Vishwani D. Agrawal is the James J. Danaher Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University, Alabama.
He has over thirty years of industry and university experience, working at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ; Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; TRW, Redondo Beach, CA; IIT, Delhi, India; EG&G, Albuquerque, NM; and ATI, Champaign, IL.
His expertise includes VLSI testing, low-power design, and microwave antennas. He obtained his BE degree from the University of Roorkee (renamed Indian Institute of Technology), Roorkee, India, in 1964; ME degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in 1966; and PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1971. He has published over 300 papers and coauthored five books. He holds thirteen United States patents.
His textbook, Essentials of Electronic Testing for Digital, Memory and Mixed-Signal VLSI Circuits, co-authored with M. L. Bushnell, was published in 2000. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief (1990- ) of the Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications, and a past Editor-in-Chief (1985-87) of the IEEE Design & Test of Computers magazine. During 2003-08, he served on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems. He is the Founder and Consulting Editor of the Frontiers in Electronic Testing Book Series of Springer.
He has received eight Best Paper Awards and two Honorable Mention Paper Awards. In 2006, he received the Life-Time Achievement Award of the VLSI Society of India, in recognition of his contributions to the area of VLSI Test and for founding and steering the International Conference on VLSI Design in India. In 1998, he received the Harry H. Goode Memorial Award of the IEEE Computer Society, for innovative contributions to the field of electronic testing, and in 1993, received the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in recognition of his outstanding contributions in design and test of VLSI systems. Agrawal is Fellow of the IETE-India, Fellow of the IEEE and Fellow of the ACM.
He has served on the advisory boards of the ECE Departments at University of Illinois, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and the City College of the City University of New York.
See his website: http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~vagrawal