Akshay Narayan
Assistant Dean (UG Student Affairs) at National University of Singapore
Singapore
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Top SchoolAkshay Narayan is an academic and educator with a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from NUS and over a decade of experience teaching and mentoring undergraduates in AI planning, decision making, and software engineering. He progressed from industry QA work at NetApp to research and teaching roles at NUS, now serving as Assistant Dean for UG Student Affairs while continuing as Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing. His research blends reinforcement learning, transfer learning and AI planning, and he has applied cloud-focused skills—performance analysis, pricing models and scripting in Perl/Python—from earlier industry projects. Beyond academia he pursues freelance photography, reflecting a creative, multidisciplinary perspective that informs his teaching and student mentorship.
12 years of coding experience
BE, computer science, BE, computer science at B. M. S. College of Engineering12th, Electronics, 12th, Electronics at JAIN CollegeInternational Institute of Information Technology BangaloreDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Artificial Intelligence at National University of Singapore / NUS
English, Kannada, Hindi
Github Skills (116)
scroll10
oop10
java10
address-book10
malmo10
duke10
issue-tracking10
fundamentals9
procedural9
minecraft9
javafx9
sketchup8
cli8
perl8
os-agnostic8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nus-cs2103-AY1718S1/addressbook-level2-old
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
A Java sample application for students. An AddressBook application that uses OOP basics.
Contributions:31 PRs, 461 comments in 23 days
fundamentalsaddressbooksample-applicationjavaoop
okkhoy/CS2103RelatedScripts
Oct 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:105 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years 6 months
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