Vishwani D Agrawal is a distinguished member of technical staff at Agere Systems, Murray Hill, New Jersey, and a visiting professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Since 1978, he has worked at Bell Labs (AT&T, Lucent) until 2001 when the microelectronic business unit of Lucent became a new company named Agere Systems. Agrawal is a world-renowned authority on electronic testing. He has published over 250 papers and five books, including the recent text-book (co-authored with ML Bushnell), "Essentials of Electronic Testing for Digital, Memory and Mixed-Signal VLSI Circuits." He holds thirteen US patents. In 1986, the IEEE elected him a Fellow for his contributions to "probabilistic testing of integrated circuits." Currently, Agrawal belongs to the SOC Design and DFT Group at Agere Systems (a spun off group from the Bell Labs) and teaches at Rutgers University. He is a co-principal investigator for two National Science Foundation research grants, totaling $645,000, at Rutgers on low-power design and spectral testing methods. He has directed or co-directed research, often as an examiner or unofficial advisor, for 14 PhD candidates at various universities (UC Berkeley, CMU, GWU, Illinois, Nebraska, Rutgers, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and University of Pune, India.)

Agarwal’s research career spans over 30 years during which he significantly contributed to the fields of radar antennas and computer testing. In 1985, with Prof HN Mahabala of IIT, Madras, India, he founded the International Conference on VLSI Design. He was the general co-chair of the Conference in 1991, and has chaired its steering committee since 1992. From 1985 to 1987 he was the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Design & Test of Computers magazine. In 1990, he founded the Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications, which is the first and currently the only archival journal in its area. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal.

Agarwal received a BSc degree from Allahabad University, Allahabad, India, in 1960, BE degree from University of Roorkee, Roorkee, India, in 1964, ME degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in 1966, and a PhD degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1971.n