Technical Advisor

Dr. Rajendra Boppana is a professor and the chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). Dr. Boppana received his Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. Dr. Boppana’s current research interests include mobile ad hoc networks security and performance, software defined networks, high performance computing (HPC), performance and security of multi-tenant clouds. He has published 75 peer-reviewed conference papers and journal articles, in addition to several book chapters on these topics. Dr. Boppana served as the principal investigator (PI) or co-PI for over 12 federally funded research grants and is the sole or lead inventor for three patents. Dr. Boppana’s recently conlcuded project was on random number generators, funded by a phase II STTR (small business technology transfer) grant from Army Research Office (ARO), to develop a robust software package that is capable of generating billions of streams of random numbers with low interstream correlations and suitable for very large scale HPC applications that run on the fastest supercomputers. Dr. Boppana is currently working on mitigation of denial of service attacks on software-defined networks. Dr. Boppana taught a wide variety of course including computer architecture, parallel computing, computer networks, simulation techniques, performance evaluation, and cloud computing applications and performance. Dr. Boppana is a co-investigator of a grant from Department of Homeland Security to design and offer a certificate program on biological and digital pathogenic outbreak investigations that adapt advances in epidemiology and cybersecurity to mitigate airborne or food-based biological terrorism and cyberattacks. Dr. Boppana directed the UTSA’s Quantitative Literacy Program (QLP), which is a university-wide curriculum enhancement program, 2011-16. The goal of this program was to increase the quantitative literacy among students and enrich their learning experience. As part of QLP, Dr. Boppana and his staff trained and worked with faculty to redesign several courses in the common core curriculum and introduce quantitative data and analysis methods that are natural to the disciplines of the courses redesigned. Over 100 faculty members, 90 student academic advisors, and various other institutional offices and programs worked with QLP in redesigning over 27 different courses with more than 60,000 student enrollments in these courses.