Nadya Santiago

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ECE Professor at UPR Mayaguez

Nayda G. Santiago is professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus. Since 2006 she is member of the Computing Alliance for Hispanic Serving Institutions (CAHSI) where she is the leader of the Southeast Region. In 2014 and 2016 she directed the 1st and 2nd Caribbean Celebration of Women in Computing, respectively. Dr. Santiago is NCWIT academic alliance member, member of Henaac, former board member and lifetime member of SACNAS, member of the CIAPR, senior member of the IEEE, member of the ACM, and senior member of the Latinas in Computing (LiC) organization. Dr. Santiago has been awarded 2017 CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award and the 2008 Henaac Educator Award.