Chaitanya Gunupudi is a Senior Platform Cloud Engineer and AI researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park, with 10+ years building secure, scalable AI and cloud systems for higher education, healthcare, and public sector institutions. He leads AI and cloud infrastructure initiatives, including federated identity and certificate automation through InCommon/Internet2, zero-trust cloud architectures, and the development of confidence-aware AI governance frameworks. He has published research in IEEE and ACM venues and speaks at national conferences, including EDUCAUSE and Internet2.