Aayushya Agarwal

Special Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Bio

Aayushya Agarwal is a Systems Scientist in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2025. His research focuses on developing computational design tools that tightly integrate artificial intelligence with physics-based optimization for next-generation large-scale, networked systems. His work targets high-impact applications including modernization of power grids, distributed AI training systems, circuit design, and advanced manufacturing. His work grounds AI and optimization in physical principles, enabling the use of circuit- and systems-level engineering design methodologies within modern numerical methods to build intuitive, robust, and scalable computational design tools.