Olgica Milenkovic

Title Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Biography

Olgica Milenkovic is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and research professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory. She obtained her Masters Degree in Mathematics in 2001 and PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2002 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From 2002 until 2007, she was with the faculty of University of Colorado, Boulder.

Prof. Milenkovic heads a group focused on addressing unique interdisciplinary research challenges spanning the areas of algorithm design and computing, bioinformatics, coding theory, machine learning and signal processing. Her scholarly contributions have been recognized by multiple awards, including the Rackham Fellowship, NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award, the Dean’s Excellence in Research Award, and several best paper awards. In 2013, she was elected a UIUC Center for Advanced Study Associate and Willett Scholar. In 2015, she became a Distinguished Lecturer of the Information Theory Society.

She has served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions of Communications, Transactions on Signal Processing, Transactions on Information Theory, and Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications. In 2009, she was the Guest Editor in Chief of a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory on Molecular Biology and Neuroscience.