Dr.Ashok Kumar Agarwal is a Gold Medalist in Mechanical Engineering from BITS Pilani who completed his Masters and Doctoral Programme from University of Minnesota.He started hhis career with Bell Telephone Laboratories followed by Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta as a professor of MIS during 1969 to 1986. He taught various courses in MBA and Ph.D programmes covering, Computer Sciences, Operations Research, Probability & Statistics, Management Information Systems and Decision Support Systems.He was involved in guiding doctoral candidates for their doctoral program.

Dr.Agarwal was involved in setting up various IT organizations in INDIA like ACS Technologies Ltd, Era Software System (P) Ltd and Cyber Media INDIA Ltd. (publisher od Data Quest). He was the founder of SQL Star International andworked there as Managing Director till 2003. During his tenure, the company was listed on BSE and grew to more than 400 professionals with subsidaries in singapore, UK and USA.

Dr. Agarwal was Chairman of Division V, Data Communication during 2003 - 2005 in Execom of CSI and Convener of CSI - Nihilent e-Governance awards. He was Event Chairman for the Annual Convention of Computer Society of INDIA (CSI 2009) at Hyderabad. He is currently Convener for the CSI Nihilent e Governance awards.