Olgica Milenkovic is a
coding theorist from the former
Yugoslavia, known for her work in
compressed sensing,
low-density parity-check code
In information theory, a low-density parity-check (LDPC) code is a linear error correcting code, a method of transmitting a message over a noisy transmission channel. An LDPC code is constructed using a sparse Tanner graph (subclass of the bipa ...
s, and
DNA digital data storage. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Education and career
Milenkovic graduated from the
University of Niš in 1996, with a bachelor's degree in
electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...
. She wrote a bachelor's thesis on ''Channel Capacity of a New Class of Modulation Codes'', supervised by
Bane Vasic
Bane Vasic is an engineer at the University of Arizona, Tucson. He was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012 for his contributions to coding theory and its applications in data storage systems and o ...
. She moved to the
University of Michigan for her graduate studies, continuing to work with Vasic there on a 2001 master's thesis, ''Multidimensional Modulation Codes for Magnetic and Optical Recording''. She completed her Ph.D. at Michigan in 2002, with a dissertation ''Combinatorial Problems in Analysis of Algorithms and Coding Theory'' supervised by Kevin Compton.
After her completing her doctorate, Milenkovic joined the department of electrical and computer engineering at the
University of Colorado Boulder. She moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 2007, and was promoted to full professor there in 2015.
In 2019, she served as Guest Editor in chief of a special project dedicated to interdisplinary work of V.I Levenshtein.
Contributions
Milenkovic's research includes using
DNA to store and retrieve content such as
Wikipedia articles and the
Gettysburg Address.
Awards
* NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
* The
DARPA Young Faculty Award
* The Dean's Excellence in Research Award
Recognition
Milenkovic was a distinguished lecturer for the
IEEE Information Theory Society in 2015. In 2018 she was elected as a
Fellow of the IEEE
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...
"for contributions to genomic data compression".
References
External links
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Niš alumni
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
University of Colorado Boulder faculty
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Serbian women engineers
21st-century women engineers
Serbian engineers
Fellows of the IEEE