Pankaj Agarwal

This article is about the Samsung employee. For the computer science professor, see Pankaj K. Agarwal.

Pankaj Agarwal (born on 23 February, 1983) is a Creative Leader and is leading a creative lab at Samsung Electronics, where he has been for over a decade. He joined Samsung as a Samsung Global Scholarship Program scholar in 2004. He has an MBA degree from the Harvard Business School, an MS from Seoul National University and a B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, where he received an award for the best undergraduate project in the department of electrical engineering.[1]

Agarwal has been known in Samsung as an innovator and is also called out as a "genius".[2] He was one of the 10 employees selected to meet the Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee in September 2012.[3] He is an inventor on over 30 US patent applications many of which have been granted a patent status.[4]

Agarwal is also a trained magician,[5] speaks multiple languages (fluent in Korean) and appeared on a talk show for foreigners in Korea.[6] He is also the founder and President of IIT Alumni Association of South Korea.[7]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.iitk.ac.in/doaaold/convocation2004/press.htm
  2. ↑ http://news.samsung.com/kr/83
  3. ↑ http://www.newscj.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=147222
  4. ↑ https://patents.google.com/?assignee=samsung&inventor=Agarwal+Pankaj&country=US&sort=new
  5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-_bLbckVo
  6. ↑ http://joynews.inews24.com/php/news_view.php?g_menu=700200&g_serial=284422
  7. ↑ http://www.iitalumkorea.com/people.html

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