Wikipedia Draft:Pankaj Agarwal

Pankaj Agarwal (born February 23, 1983) is an Indian innovator, entrepreneur, and magician. He is the Founder and CEO of TagHive, and the Founder and Chairman of the IIT Alumni Association of South Korea (IITAAK).

Education
Agarwal completed his secondary schooling at St. Xavier's School, Sahibganj in Jharkhand, India. He enrolled in Delhi Public School for high school studies.

Agarwal attained his Bachelor's degree in Technology in EE from the Indian Institute of Technology in 2004. In 2006, he pursued Masters of Science in EECS from Seoul National University, South Korea. He earned his MBA degree from Harvard Business School, Boston, in 2012.

Career
In 2004, Agarwal became an inventor on a patent application filed by IIT Kanpur.

In 2007, he launched a scholarship program in St. Xavier's School, Sahibganj, Jharkhand.

In 2006, Agarwal joined Samsung Electronics as an Engineer and was promoted to Manager for the Future Innovation Team in 2012. In 2013, he set up the Samsung FARM.

In 2011, during his tenure as an internee at Boston—based company, Simplisafe, Agarwal created a water sensor-based product.

In 2014, he pioneered NODE, an open innovation program to accelerate the collaborations between top tier Samsung affiliations.

In 2015, Agarwal was appointed as the Advisor to the Chief Technology Officer in Samsung Electronics. In 2016, he was promoted to the position of Creative Leader and led the TagPlus Project. In the same year, he also chaired the Electronics & Smart Cities Vertical at the Indian Chamber of Commerce in South Korea.

In 2017, he established TagHive, a Samsung funded educational technology business solution operating in South Korea and India. In 2018, he launched 1-Click toy in partnership with Young Toys, the leading toymaker in Korea, and presented Classroom Technology Solution to the first lady of South Korea in India. In 2019, Agarwal established business endeavors, ClassKey, an interactive classroom project, and Class Saathi, a smart educational solution in India's 2 States.

In 2015, Agarwal established the IIT Alumni Association of South Korea (IITAAK). In 2019, he represented the IIT Alumni Association of South Korea to Prime Minister Modi.

In 2020, he was elected as the Governor of the Indian Chamber of Commerce in Korea. In the same year, he Chaired the Covid-19 IITAAK (IIT Alumni Association of Korea), a task force formed in collaboration with the Indian Embassy in South Korea.

Selected Publications

 * Suyong Chae, Byungchul Hyun, Pankaj Agarwal, Woosup Kim, Bo Cho, April 2008. Digital Predictive Feed-Forward Controller for a DC–DC Converter in Plasma Display Panel. DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.915646.
 * Suyong Chae, Byungchul Hyun, Pankaj Agarwal, Woosup Kim, Bo Cho, April 2008. Digital Predictive Feed-Forward Controller for a DC–DC Converter in Plasma Display Panel. DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.915646.
 * Pankaj Agarwal, Woo-Sup Kim, Suyong Chae, Bo Cho, June 2006. P-113: An Efficient and Cost-Effective Novel Driving Scheme for AC - PDP Sustain Driver. DOI: 10.1889/1.2433580.
 * Won Seog Kim, P. Agarwal, Suyong Chae, Bo Cho, D.Y. Lee, June 2006. P-114: A New Energy Recovery Circuit for the PDP Sustainer using the Auxiliary Transformer. DOI: 10.1889/1.2433581.
 * Pankaj Agarwal, Woosup Kim, Bo Cho, January 2006. A Novel Transformer Coupled Efficient AC-PDP Sustain Driver. DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2006.1711758.

Awards and recognition

 * Education StartUp of the Year by IDA (India Didactics Association) in 2019
 * Top 5 StartUp at GIF (Global Innovators Fiesta) in Korea in 2019
 * Spoke at ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) 2018 Conference in Seoul
 * Winner of KOICA's CTS Program 2018
 * Top 10 innovators under 35 in India by MIT Technology Review and Mint 2017
 * Winner of TR35 India 2017
 * Certified Magician (Level 3, Korean Magic Society) 2014
 * 2013 Samsung President's Award for FARM
 * Samsung MBA Scholarship 2010
 * Won 1st place in the Korean Speech Contest organized by Samsung Electronics in 2008
 * Value Engineering Black Belt certification in Samsung Electronics, South Korea in 2007
 * Samsung Global Scholarship Program Award 2004
 * Best Undergraduate Project in the Department of EE at IIT Kanpur, India in 2004
 * Inventor on 50+ International Patents

Personal life
Agarwal is married to Pooja, and they have two children together. He lives in South Korea.