Sathya Narayanan

Dr. Sathya Narayanan is a Professor of Computer Science at CSUMB. He teaches freshman year seminar, Physics, ProSeminar and a senior capstone course for CS students. He currently is leading and coordinating multiple initiatives to strengthen the CS curriculum and to provide integrated support to CS students to ensure their academic and career success.

Apart from his teaching and day-to-day responsibilities, Sathya is working to develop learning communities of students through multiple cohort based programs. CS++ is a cohort program geared towards incoming freshman students and CSin3 is a cohort program built in collaboration with Hartnell College. This cohort model received a first-tier, $5M award for innovation in higher education from the state of CA.

Most of Sathya's projects stem from current and previous funding from external sources, including:

• National Science Foundation - Science Technology Expansion Program
• National Science Foundation - Scholarship for STEM Program
• National Science Foundation - Advanced Technology Education Program
• Naval Postgraduate School - Military Wireless Communications Research
• California Public Utilities Commission - Broadband Wireless Measurement Research and Development
• Google CS4HS , and
• Monterey Peninsula Foundation - Student Leadership Rotation Program
• Firetide Mobility Test Track

Sathya has over fifteen years of experience in computer software systems, computer networking, wireless networking, mobile app development and over six years experience in developing, implementing and evaluating solutions to address computer science education challenges.