He has published over 30 journal articles, holds two U.S. patents, and has numerous conference publications in prestigious venues including IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Nature Scientific Data, Scientific Reports, IEEE Access, and ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review. Dr. Gottumukkala has been awarded over $100 million in research funding from prestigious sources including the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Louisiana Board of Regents, and numerous industry partners. Significant grants include the Hubs for Energy Resilience Operations (HERO) project ($87.3M, DNR/DOE, Co-PI), Partnership for COVID-19 Vaccination of Underserved Populations (VAX-UP) ($21.9M, Louisiana Department of Health, Co-PI), RAPID: Visual Analytics Approach to Real-Time Tracking of COVID-19 ($187K, NSF, PI), and Major Research Instrumentation: Development of A Distributed Visual Analytics Sandbox for High Volume Data Streams ($516K, NSF, PI). He has also been awarded EAGER: A Virtual Crisis Information Sharing and Situational Awareness Platform for Collaborative Disaster Response ($329K, NSF, PI) and Diagnostic Security Modules for the Electric Vehicle to Building Integration ($290K, DOE, PI). Honors include the 2024 Researcher of the Year Award from the College of Engineering at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the 2023 Outstanding Master's Mentor Award from the Graduate School, the 2017 Ralph E. POWE Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (one of only 36 national recipients), the 2017 Innovative Project of the Year Award for cyber-physical system security research from the Secretary of DNR & DOTD State of Louisiana, and the 2017
Research Experience
From 2012 to 2022, he was the Site (Managing) Director for the NSF Center for Visual and Decision Informatics, an industry-university cooperative research center. His research has been implemented by industry and government agencies across Louisiana.
Background
Dr. Raju Gottumukkala is the AAMA/LEQSF Regents Associate Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, holding joint appointments with the Informatics Research Institute, the Mechanical Engineering Department, and the School of Computing and Informatics. He serves as the Director of Accessible Healthcare through AI-Augmented Decisions (AHeAD), an AI center of excellence in healthcare. His research centers on human-centric intelligent systems, with a focus on developing AI/ML-based decision support tools that deliver real-world impact in public health, healthcare access, homeland security, and emergency management.
Miscellany
He instructs courses in applied machine learning, intelligent systems, and optimization.