Her research interests are in Cryptography and Information Theory. Previously, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles with Professor Amit Sahai. Prior to that, Agrawal earned her PhD from The University of Texas at Austin. During her doctoral studies, she was guided by Professor Dan Boneh in Cryptography (during an extended visit to Stanford University) and Professor Sriram Vishwanath in Information Theory.