Shanmugatha "Shan" Suthaharan
Dr. Suthaharan received a B.S. in Statistics and Computing with first class honors from University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka in 1981, an M.S. in Computer Science from Dundee University, United Kingdom in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Monash University, Australia in 1996. Before joining University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) in fall 2001, he was the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at the Tennessee State University (TSU) between spring 1999 and spring 2001 and a lecturer at Monash University between January 1996 and December 1998. During 1995 and 1996, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Monash University. He has been the Director of Computer Science Program and was an elected member of the University Undergraduate Curriculum Committee at UNCG. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, Principles of Computer Networks, Cryptography and Security in Computing, Art and Code (an interdeciplinary course) and Senior Project. He taught the following undergraduate and graduate courses in the past: Elementary Data Structures and Algorithm, Operating Systems, Computer Vision and Computer Graphics. He has more than 25 years of international and US teaching experience in Computer Science and related fields. He taught at Jaffna University, Monash University, TSU and UNCG.