Dr. Agrawal is currently the Herbert Kayser Professor of Civil Engineering at the City College of New York and has expertise in diverse and broad areas of bridge engineering, including smart materials, inspection, monitoring, robotic, remote sensing, and inspections using unknown aerial vehicles, asset management of bridges, artificial intelligence technology and extreme hazards on bridges.  Dr. Agrawal also has been PI of large number of projects from local, state, and federal agencies during the last 25 years with total external funding of more than $15 M.  All these projects were completed successfully with significant, new contributions to the state-of-the-art.  He has published more than 300 technical papers and reports.  He has also carried out large number of technology transfer activities, such as developing seismic design guidelines for NYCDOT, scour countermeasure design guidelines, seismic design guideline and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) operating procedures manual for NJDOT and design guidance for vehicle impacts on bridge piers for FHWA.  Because of his outstanding efforts, he was awarded the best implementation award in 2022 by the New Jersey Department of Transportation.  He served as the Editor in Chief of ASCE’s Journal of Bridge Engineering for 12 years and is the recipient of numerous national and international research awards.  His time in this project will account for 80% of his non-teaching activities.
 

Research Interests

• Structural Response Control (passive, semi-active, and active dampers and protective systems for buildings and bridges)
• Smart Materials and Intelligent Structures Earthquake Engineering(Retrofit or design of engineering for earthquakes, new protective technologies, etc.)
• Wind Engineering (Vibration reduction of tall buildings using dampers)
• System Indentification (Identification of frequencies and damping ratios of tall buildings)
• Effects of blast loads on buildings