Gopinath Gampala of Altair

Biography:

Gopinath Gampala is Manager-Global Technical Team with Altair. He received the B. Tech. degree in electronics and communications engineering from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India, in 2005 and the M.S. degree from the University of Mississippi, University, MS, USA, in 2007. The topic of his research for the Master's degree was the analysis and design of artificial magnetic conductors for X-band antenna applications. He is working in the field of CAE for the past 15+ years. High-impedance surfaces, Low-profile antennas, LTE, Radomes, Characteristic Mode Analysis, 5G and Machine Learning are some of the topics of interest where he published extensively.

Dr. C.J. Reddy of Altair

Biography:

Dr. C.J. Reddy is Vice President, Business Development-Electromagnetics for Americas at Altair. Dr. Reddy was awarded the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada Visiting Fellowship to work at Communications Research Center in Ottawa during 1991-1993 and was awarded the US National Research Council (NRC) Resident Research Associateship in 1993 to work at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. He also worked as Research Professor at Hampton University from 1995 to 2000. Dr. Reddy was the President of Applied EM, Inc (2000-2017) where he led several Phase I and Phase II SBIR projects for the DoD and NASA. He was also the President of EM Software & Systems (USA) Inc (2002-2014) and led the marketing of the EM Simulation tool, Feko in North America. EM Software & Systems (USA) Inc was acquired by Altair in 2014. 

 Dr. Reddy is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of ACES (Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society) and a Fellow of AMTA (Antenna Measurement Techniques Association). Dr. Reddy is a co-author of the book, “Antenna Analysis and Design Using FEKO Electromagnetic Simulation Software,” published in June 2014 by SciTech Publishing (now part of IET).  Dr. Reddy served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Open Journal of Antennas of Propagation and IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. He also serves as the Chair of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Young Professionals Committee and got elected to AP-S AdCom to serve a three-year term 2023-2025. Recently, Dr. Reddy is elected by AP-S membership to serve as the 2025 IEEE AP-S President-Elect.