Systems Group of the Department of Science and Technology and a former member of the Experts Group on Biofuels and Retrofitting of Engines of the Government of India. He is a member of the board of associates of the Internal Combustion Engines Division of American Society of Mechanical Engineering and is associated with SAE International, sitting in many of their review committees. He was the session organizer for 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 editions of SAE World Congress and chaired the 2004, 2005 and 2006 sessions on alternative fuel and internal combustion engines. Awards and honors Agarwal received the Young Scientist Award of the Department of Science and Technology in 2002, followed by the Career Award for Young Teachers of the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) in 2004. The Young Engineer Award of the Indian National Academy of Engineering reached him in 2005 and the Young Scientists Medal of the Indian National Science Academy came his way in 2007. He received the Alkyl Amine Young Scientist Award of the Institute of Chemical Technology the same year and a year later, SAE International selected him for the 2008 Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award. He received the C. V. Raman Young Teachers Award of the IES Group in 2011 and NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award of the National Academy of Sciences, India in 2012. The Indian National Academy of Engineering honored him again in 2012 with the Silver Jubilee Young Engineer Award, which was followed by "Rajib Goyal Prize" in Physical Sciences-2015 from Kurukshetra University and then Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2016. Afterwards, he was conferred "Er. M P Baya National Award-2017" in Mechanical Engineering by Institution of Engineers, Udaipur and Clarivate Analytics India Research Excellence - Citation Award-2017, which was 6th Edition prize for high citations and high impact work from India, given by Clarivate Analytics. Agarwal, who held the BOYSCAST Fellowship of Department of Science and Technology in 2002 and Devendra Shukla Research Fellowship of IIT Kanpur in 2009, was elected as a fellow by the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2015. He is also a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and SAE International, Royal Society of Chemistry, Indian National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences and International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability He