ON May 12, Nathaniel Stanley Good V, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Information, a media release said.
Nathan is the son of local civil engineer, Stan Good, president of Azuma Limited.
Nathan and his family arrived on Saipan in July 1984.
He and his brother attended Saipan Community School up to the sixth grade then were home schooled by Kathy Munson for the next three years.
They also attended Mount Carmel and Grace Christian Academy on a part time basis.
Nathan was an exchange student in Japan during his middle school years attending a public school in Yokohama.
Each year he would fulfill his home-school requirements in Saipan then go to Japan for the next four months.
He graduated from Yokohama Shimoseya after the ninth grade.
Nathan completed his high school at St. John’s on Guam.
In May 1997 he graduated with his associate’s degree from Northern Marianas Community College on Saipan.
He obtained his B.S. in computer science from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2000.
Nathan was accepted into the Ph.D. program at UC Berkley and spent the next seven years as a student, as a Hewlett Packard labs intern, and as an intern at Xerox PARC both in Silicon Valley, California.
Nathan has an impressive list of credentials including four patents, 12 articles and technical reports, attended 15 international conferences as a technical presenter, been invited as an expert witness to testify before the U.S. Congress on six occasions, and been a research leader at Berkeley.
He has consulted with the Federal Trade Commission. Most recently he has been part of a research team working with Yahoo!
Nathan met his wife, Czarina, when they were both working for White Coconut Computer Services while attending NMC.
Bud White, president of WCCS, was and has remained as one of Nathan’s main mentors in life and for computer sciences.
Today, Nathan and his family live in the San Francisco area, have two children and one on the way.
In January, Nathan and his family visited Saipan to attend his sister’s, Natasha Good, 18th birthday.
Now that he is graduated and has numerous job opportunities to choose from, he hopes to be able to travel to Saipan and Japan more often to visit friends and family.
Nathan is a product of the local private school system and a graduate of NMC.
His accomplishments speak well for our local schools and for the dedicated teachers who continue to inspire a new generation of intellectuals.