Prof. Shan Suthaharan

Dr. Shan Suthaharan is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). He joined UNCG in 2001 as an Assistant Professor, and promoted to Associate Professor in 2005, then promoted to Professor in 2014. He served as Graduate Program Director in 2021-2022. He also served as Director of Undergraduate Studies for more than 10 years and as Interim Head in Fall 2015 at UNCG. He played a major role in leading the committee and maintaining ABET accreditation of the undergraduate program successfully. Dr. Suthaharan is also the sole author of the high impact and high-quality textbook on the state-of-the-art topics of big data analytics and machine learning. Notably this book was reviewed by ACM Computing Reviews and received a “Reviewer Recommended” rating. He also invented a key management and encryption technology that has been patented in Australia, Japan, and Singapore. He also served as an elected Chair for the IEEE Central North Carolina section for two terms. He is a Distinguished speaker of the ACM (2018-2021).