Senior Vice Provost for Academic Operations, Northern Arizona University


John Georgas, Ph.D., has served as the senior vice provost for academic operations at Northern Arizona University since 2020. In this role, he collaborates across a broad portfolio of offices and areas, including academic advising, office of the registrar, academic policies, and undergraduate research. His scholarly interests include software and architectural visualization, self-adaptive software systems, domain-specific architecture and architectural styles, and software engineering pedagogy and learning. Georgas earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and his master’s and doctoral degrees in information and computer science from the University of California, Irvine.

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