Prof. D(Nanda) Nandagopal

Professor Nandagopal brings to bear a unique combination of leadership and management in Strategic Science, as well as experience across a broad range of disciplines.  His career in research spans three continents (Asia [India], North America and Australia) covering a wide range of areas in Science and Engineering including Defence Science, Electronics, Biomedical Engineering and Sensor Signal and Information Processing.  He has significant experience at systems level, especially in high level architectures, mission and combat systems, autonomous systems.  He has developed a passion for Systems and the system of Systems research.

Professor Nandagopal joined UniSA after extensive experience with the Australian Department of Defence.  He has been with the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) for over 23 years, during which time he held various Senior Executive positions including the position of Deputy Chief Defence Scientist.  He has also served on various Defence Committees in Canberra.  Professor Nandagopal has taken up the position of Dean International and Chair Defence Systems at UniSA after leaving DSTO in August 2012.

Professor Nandagopal has held academic positions at the University of Adelaide, McMaster University (Canada) and the University of Melbourne.  He has also held Adjunct positions at the University of Adelaide and the Australian National University (ANU). 

Professor Nandagopal currently leads research in Systems, which includes the following topics:

1. Intelligent Integrated Guidance, navigation and control
2. Passive vision based navigation of UAVs
3. Service Oriented Architectures for naval combat systems
4. Cognitive Modelling
5. Identification of Cognitive Activity and Functional Brain Networks by Computer Visualisation and Mapping of EEG Data

Professor Nandagopal has also established a Cognitive Neuro-Engineering Laboratory (CNEL) and an Intelligent systems laboratory to assist his PhD students.

• First name: Nanda
• Last name: Nandagopal
• Email address: Nanda.Nandagopal@unisa.edu.au