Dr. Gottumukkala  applies his broad knowledge of computer science, applied mathematics and advanced technologies to a wide range of real-world problems in disaster management such as  site-selection problems, risk assessment, evacuation modeling and critical infrastructure interdependency analysis.  He has done work for the Center for Business Information Technology and LONI (Louisiana Optic Network Initiative) as a Computational Scientist.  He received his Master’s and doctorate from Louisiana Technical  University.  He has authored several publications in premier journals and conferences and currently leads various research and software development projects at the NIMSAT Institute that help improve disaster preparedness and response.

Dr. Gottumukkala leads the Institute’s research and software development efforts to design and implement solutions that enhance disaster preparedness and response through advanced information technologies, cyber infrastructure and spatiotemporal data analysis.  He also collaborates with the university faculty and guides students on various supercomputing research projects.  His areas of expertise include distributed systems, parallel algorithms, probabilistic modeling, and spatiotemporal optimization problems.