Manindra Agrawal is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Dean of Faculty Affairs (DoFA) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He was also the recipient of the first Infosys Prize for Mathematics., and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Sciences in 2003. He has been honored with Padma Shri in 2013. He was born on 20 May 1966 in Allahabad, India. Manindra Agrawal received his B. Tech and Ph. D in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1986 and 1991, respectively. He co-created the AKS primality test with Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena, for which he and his co-authors won the 2002 Clay Research Award, the 2006 Fulkerson Prize, and the 2006 Gödel Prize. The test is the first deterministic algorithm to test an n-digit number for primality in a time that has been proven to be polynomial in n. In September 2008, Agrawal was chosen for the first Infosys Mathematics Prize for outstanding contributions in the broad field of mathematics.He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2003-04.He then joined the Chennai Mathematical Institute (then known as SPIC Science Foundation) as Fellow. In the summer of 1995. He spent a year at Ulm, Germany on a Humboldt Fellowship and returned in 1996 to join IIT Kanpur as Assistant Professor.

He was a fellow at the School of Mathematics, SPIC Science Foundation, Chennai from 1993 to 1995, and a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Ulm, Germany, from 1995 to 1996. He joined the faculty at IIT Kanpur as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in 1996. He was appointed as the N. Rama Rao Chair Professor in 2003. He is the recipient of several international awards including the Fulkerson Prize 2006 and the Gödel Prize 2006, and has published and presented papers in reputed journals.