Shan Suthaharan PhD SMIEEE

I was working as a Senior Research Associate at AT&T Labs - Research during my Research Assignment Leave from August to December 2007.

Dr Shanmugathasan (Shan) Suthaharan Associate Professor of Computer Science Department of Computer Science University of North Carolina at Greensboro 388 Bryan Building, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170   TP: 336 256 1122, Fax: 336 256 0439 email: ssuthaharan@uncg.edu

Dr. Suthaharan received a B.Sc. in Statistics and Computing with first class honors from the University of Jaffna, Srilanka in 1981, an M.S. in Computer Science from the Dundee University, United Kingdom in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Monash University, Australia in 1996. Before joining UNC-Greensboro in Fall 2001, he was the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at the Tennessee State University between Spring 1999 and Spring 2001 and a lecturer at Monash University, Australia between January 1996 and December 1998. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Monash University during 1995 and 1996. He has been the Director of Computer Science Program at UNCG and was an elected member of the University Undergraduate Curriculum Committee at UNCG.

Dr. Suthaharan currently teaches upper division undergraduate and graduate courses in computer communications and networking, wireless networking, cryptography and security in computing and senior project. He has more than 25 years of international and US teaching experience in computer science and related fields. He has taught at the University of Jaffna (Sri Lanka, 4 years), Monash University (Australia, 3 years), Tennessee State University (USA, 3 years) and University of North Carolina at Greensboro (USA, 6 years). He was nominated by students for 2002-2003 and 2006-2007 College Teaching Excellence award and 2004-2005 Alumni Teaching Excellence award at UNCG and also received an Advancement in Teaching and Learning (ATL) award from UNCG in 2002.

Dr. Suthaharan's current research interest is focused on an applied area of computer science, involving traffic characteristics of the Internet and Local area networks, and the efficient and secure transmission of information across these networks. His research involves both advances in efficient algorithms for handling secure data transmission and experimental studies of existing network characteristics. His current research led to two novel algorithms in these research areas and produced innovative benefits. Dr. Suthaharan and his team have received a multi-campus award of $650,000.00 from the UNC-OP (Office of the President) to promote High Performance Computing and Computational Sciences in North Carolina. He also recived summer research excellence award from UNCG in 2002 and 2003. In 1997, Dr. Suthaharan received the Australian-American Research Fellowship and carried out research University of Texas at Arlington.

In 2001, he served as the General Chair for the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communications Systems. Dr. Suthaharan is a senior member of the IEEE and he served as the IEEE chair for the Central North Carolina Section during 2002-2003 and 2004-2006. His biography is included in the 18th edition of Who's Who in the World 2000 and in the 56th edition of Who's Who in America 2001. His biography is also included in the One Thousand Great Americans, published by the International Biographical Center 2001. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Real-Time Image Processing published by the Springer-Verlag.