Dr. Rajeev Gopal

Dr. Gopal is Vice President of Advanced Systems within Hughes Defense and is responsible for resilient/protected communications, LEO, 5G, HTS, AI/ML and cyber areas. He was on the system design of the OneWeb LEO broadband network using 4G/5G and IP network technologies. He earlier served as Network System Engineering lead for USAF Transformational Satellite (TSAT) space segment (with onboard layer 3 packet processing) and was a lead architect for SPACEWAY® 3 (with onboard packet processing) system. Dr. Gopal has published more than 40 technical papers on topics ranging from space, 5G, software, AI/ML, and networking, and holds 11 patents on satellite/communications systems.