Dr. Raju Gottumukkala is the Director of Research for the Informatics Research Institute at UL Lafayette. As the Director of Research, he leads several research initiatives in the broader area of cyber physical systems and big data across three centers within IRI. This includes The National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Visual and Decision Informatics (CVDI) and Center for Business and Information Technologies. He is also the Site Director of NSF CVDI – an NSF Industry University Cooperative Research Center in the area of big data.
His research interest is in the area of human-centered intelligent systems, spans areas such as machine learning and AI, multi-modal sensing, privacy-aware methods for human behavior sensing, and cyber-physical system security. Dr. Gottumukkala has led various R&D efforts totaling over $100M and has authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications. Some of Dr. Gottumukkala's notable research efforts include VAStream (www.vastream.net) from NSF, NSF Center for Visual and Decision Informatics (www.nsfcvdi.org), and the development of a High-confidence Medical Cyber-physical system research instrument. He has also successfully led stress detection studies using machine learning. Dr. Gottumukkala began his professional career as a Computational Scientist at UL Lafayette and served in the roles of R&D Manager, NSF Site Director and Director of Research for the Informatics Research Institute.