Dr. Gopal is Vice President, Advanced Systems and has pioneered a resilient comms portfolio aligned with $100M+ programs comprising LEO, 5G, HTS, AI/ML, DevSecOps, and cloud technologies within Hughes. He is the PI for 5G Networking programs for US Navy and is the Hughes PM for US Space Force Protected Tactical Enterprise Service (PTES). His unified multi-orbit resilient communications framework has instantiated in multiple sites for transformational mission critical networks. Earlier, he worked on design of the OneWeb LEO broadband system using 4G/5G and IP network technologies. He served as Network System Engineering lead for Transformational Satellite (TSAT) space segment and was on the SPACEWAY® 3 (onboard L2 processing) architecture and Mobile Satellite systems (Thuraya, ICO, LEO Teledesic), development teams. He was the chief architect and software manager for the SPACEWAY, a $1.8B development, Network Operations Control Center. Dr. Gopal serves on the editorial board of Wiley’s International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking (IJSCN) and is member of IEEE 5G World Forum, AIAA Communication Systems Technical Committee, and AIAA ICSSC technical program committee. He represents Hughes in Satellite Industry Association (SIA) and was a member of the FCC Cyber Security working group in 2010-2011. He contributed for the DHS National Communications Sector Risk assessment report in 2011-2012. As a member of the US President’s NSTAC Satellite Task Force 2009, he co-authored the report on commercial satellite communications and cyber security. He has served on program committees including IEEE Globecom SAC, SPIE, and IEEE SIMA and has been on SIA, AIAA/ICSSC, MILCOM, Global VSAT Forum, and National Institutes of Health (NIH) panels. Earlier, he architected drug screening and laboratory automation systems for NIH with IP networking, interactive distributed computing, and robotics technologies and founded a bioinformatics company.Dr. Gopal has published more than 40 technical papers on topics ranging from satellites, software, AI, machine learning, network management, and life sciences, and holds 12 patents on satellite/communications systems.
Listed skills include Systems Engineering, Program Management, System Architecture, Integration, and 18 others.