Pankaj Agarwal (born on 23 February, 1983) is a Creative Leader and is leading a creative lab at Samsung Electronics, where he has been for over a decade. He joined Samsung as a Samsung Global Scholarship Program scholar in 2004. He has an MBA degree from the Harvard Business School, an MS from Seoul National University and a B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, where he received an award for the best undergraduate project in the department of electrical engineering.
Agarwal has been known in Samsung as an innovator and is also called out as a "genius". He was one of the 10 employees selected to meet the Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee in September 2012. He is an inventor on over 30 US patent applications many of which have been granted a patent status.
Agarwal is also a trained magician, speaks multiple languages (fluent in Korean) and appeared on a talk show for foreigners in Korea. He is also the founder and President of IIT Alumni Association of South Korea.