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Dr Nanda Nandagopal

Dr Nandagopal is the DSTO's Deputy Chief Defence Scientist (Policy and Programs), responsible for DSTO's strategic policy development, client program planning and reporting across the organisation. He is also DSTO's Chief Systems Integration Officer, responsible for the overall planning, policies and frameworks for the integration of systems and technologies across the whole of DSTO, and has the lead for DSTO's major S&T initiative in Military Experimentation. Dr Nandagopal is Executive Chair of TTCP Joint Systems and Analysis Group, and is the chair of the ARC Research Network on Information Systems, Sensor Networks and Information Processing.

Dr Nandagopal holds a Bachelor of Engineering, a Master of Science and a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He has held academic positions at the University of Adelaide, McMaster University, Canada and the University of Melbourne. He has held an Adjunct Associate Professor position at the University of Adelaide and he has also been appointed Adjunct Fellow of the Australian National University.

Dr Nandagopal joined the DSTO in January 1989 as a Principal Research Scientist and was promoted to Senior Principal Research Scientist in 1990, working as Research Leader Maritime Weapons Systems in Weapons Systems Division. In July 1996, he was promoted to Chief Weapons Systems Division and then Chief Maritime Operations Division in 2000. In 2002, Dr Nandagopal was promoted to become the inaugural Director, Systems Sciences Laboratory - later transformed into Deputy Chief Defence Scientist (Systems). In this role, Dr Nandagopal was responsible for research and development into Operations (Land, and Maritime), Weapons, Radar and Electronic Warfare. On July 1, 2006, he relinquished this position and took up his current role as Deputy Chief Defence Scientist (Policy and Planning).