Rate My Professor Himanshu Agrawal

Associate Professor Himanshu Agrawal is a faculty member in the School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences within the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Curtin University. He contributes to the Curtin Institute for Data Science and holds the position of Networking Lead in the Healthy Connections research project under the healthy communities research area. Agrawal's academic background includes a PhD from RMIT University awarded in 2010 and an M.Tech in Computer Science. Throughout his career at Curtin University, he has progressed from Lecturer to Senior Lecturer and now Associate Professor. As a lecturer affiliated with the Cisco-Curtin Centre for Networks, he has led the development of massive open online courses (MOOCs), including Introduction to Software Defined Networking launched on 22 June 2021, Software Defined Networking Access Security, and 5G Deployment.

Agrawal's research interests span multidisciplinary areas including networking, Internet of Things (IoT), cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), next-generation telecommunications, security and privacy, Digital Twins, and Industry 4.0. His work applies AI and ML to domains such as health monitoring and sustainable energy systems. Key publications include the book Fractional Modelling and Controller Design of Robotic Manipulators (Springer, 2020, co-authored with A. P. Singh, D. Deb, and V. E. Balas), the paper Application of Inertial Measurement Units and Machine Learning Classification in Cerebral Palsy Randomized Controlled Trial (2021), Recursive Service Function Chain Orchestration (2024), and Performance Evaluation of ChaosFortress Lightweight Cryptographic Scheme for Resource-Constrained Devices (2025). He received the 2024 PVC Faculty Global Positioning Award and was a finalist in the 2025 Curtinnovation Awards for the NeuroPose project with team members Prof Yue Rong, Prof Tele Tan, Dr Gabriel Lee, A/Prof Sonny Pham, and others. Agrawal supervises PhD candidates and serves as General Chair for the IEEE 36th International Teletraffic and Computer Networks Conference (ITNAC) in 2026.