Dr. Agrawal has been associated with UTS since 2018. She is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Data and Electrical Engineering. She is also the CEO of Vividhata Pty Ltd, a start up in diversity and inclusion.

Previously she had joined UTS in January 2018 with time evenly split between roles of Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Data Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering and IT, and Director of the Women in Engineering and IT programme.
Dr. Agrawal worked at City, University of London from 2005-2017 in the Department of Electrical Engineering. She was Royal Society posdoctoral fellow, and her PhD was on modelling methods for optical components, completed at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2005.

Dr. Agrawal’s research interests lie in optics: modelling of photonic components such as solar cells, optical fibers, sensors, lasers etc. She is an expert on numerical methods for optics such as Finite Element Method (FEM). She has written a book on FEM, and edited a book on trends in computational photonics. She is also an Associate Editor for the IEEE Photonics Journal.

She is passionate about embedding inclusion in STEM and emerging technology on one hand, while using the latest technology in diversity and inclusion, such as use of Virtual Reality for training.