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For the Serbian politician, see Jelena Žarić Kovačević.
Jelena Kovačević
Born
Belgrade
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Belgrade (BEE)
Columbia University (PhD)
OccupationDean of NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering
Known forBooks : "Wavelets and Subband Coding" and "Foundations of Signal Processing"
FatherŽivorad Kovačević
Academic background
Doctoral advisorMartin Vetterli

Jelena Kovačević is a Serbian American engineering professor, whose research has focused on signal processing and data science. She was named the first female dean of the New York University Tandon School of Engineering at New York University (NYU) in August 2018.[1] In May 2023, she announced she will be stepping down effective August 2024.[2]

Education

Kovačević received her Engineering Diploma Degree in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade and her MS and PhD from Columbia University, under doctoral advisor Martin Vetterli, with whom she later co-authored multiple books on signal processing and wavelet theory.[3][4]

Career

Kovačević became head of NYU Tandon School of Engineering in 2018, the first woman to do so in the school's 164-year history.[1] At the end of her five-year term in May 2023, she announced she would be stepping down on August 31, 2024. [2] Under her leadership, NYU Tandon experienced significant growth in enrollment from more than 5,000 students in Fall 2015 to more than 7,500 students by the Spring of 2023[5], as well as a growth in research expenditures from $20.7M in FY2015 to $59M in FY2024[5]. The school also rose to a record high #33 in the U.S. News and World Report Best Graduate Engineering School Rankings in the edition published in 2022[6], before reverting to #41 in the edition published in 2024[7] after U.S. News and World Report made significant changes to the methodology with which it calculated graduate engineering school rankings for both the 2023 and 2024 editions[8][9].

From 2014-2018, she was department head of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.[10] Prior to that, she was a professor of biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon, which she joined in 2003. She was also an adjunct professor at Columbia University and worked at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey from 1991-2002.[11]

Kovačević has written numerous papers and has also co-authored several books, including "Wavelets and Subband Coding", "Foundations of Signal Processing" and "Fourier and Wavelet Signal Processing".[12][13][14] A fellow of the IEEE[15] and EURASIP,[16] she is also the recipient of several awards, including the "Belgrade October Prize", the "E.I. Jury Award" from Columbia University, the "CIT Philip L. Dowd Fellowship Award" from Carnegie Mellon University,[17] the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award in 2016,[18] and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS) Career Achievement Award in 2022.[19] She has been a keynote or invited speaker at a number of academic conferences.[11] Her research interests include applying data science to a number of domains such as biology, medicine and smart infrastructure. She is also an authority on multiresolution techniques, such as wavelets and frames.[20]

Family

Jelena Kovačević was born in the family of Margita Kovačević and Živorad Kovačević, a Yugoslav politician, diplomat, and academic, who was the 60th Mayor of Belgrade in 1974-1982 and Yugoslavia's Ambassador to the United States in 1987-1989, when he was recalled after his disapproval of Slobodan Milosević's regime.

References

  1. ^ a b Communications, NYU Web. "Jelena Kovačević Named Dean of Tandon School of Engineering". www.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-22.
  2. ^ a b "A new chapter | NYU Tandon School of Engineering". engineering.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-22.
  3. ^ "From Biomedical Imaging to Online Blogs: Graph Signal Processing | Electrical Engineering". www.ee.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
  4. ^ "Jelena Kovačević". jelena.ece.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
  5. ^ a b "NYU Tandon Fast Facts". Retrieved 2024-07-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ "NYU Tandon School of Engineering has banner year, leading to continued rise in U.S. News & World Report rankings | NYU Tandon School of Engineering". engineering.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-22.
  7. ^ "New York University (Tandon) 2024-2025 Rankings". Retrieved 2024-06-18.
  8. ^ "ASEE Survey Report on the Graduate Engineering Rankings Methodology 2023" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ "Methodology: 2024 Best Engineering Schools Rankings". Retrieved 2024-07-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ "Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering Names Jelena Kovačević to Head Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - News - Carnegie Mellon University".
  11. ^ a b "Jelena Kovačević Biography, NYU Tandon". Retrieved 2023-06-22.
  12. ^ Vetterli, Martin; Kovačević, Jelena; Goyal, Vivek K. (4 September 2014). Foundations of Signal Processing. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107038608. Retrieved 12 April 2018 – via Google Books.
  13. ^ Kovacevic, Jelena; Vetterli, Martin (12 April 1995). Wavelets and Subband Coding. Prentice Hall PTR. ISBN 9780130970800. Retrieved 12 April 2018 – via Google Books.
  14. ^ Kovacevic, Jelena; Goyal, Vivek K.; Vetterli, Martin (January 17, 2013). Fourier and Wavelet Signal Processing. Cambridge University Press. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.384.5776.
  15. ^ "Jelena Kovacevic Profile, IEEE". Retrieved 2023-06-22.
  16. ^ "EURASIP Fellows". Retrieved 2023-06-22.
  17. ^ "Kovačević earns highest faculty distinction". 2016-05-13. Retrieved 2023-06-22.
  18. ^ "IEEE Signal Processing Society Award Recipients". Retrieved 2023-06-22.
  19. ^ "Dean Jelena Kovačević received the 2022 EMBS Career Achievement Award". Retrieved 2023-06-22.
  20. ^ Vetterli, Martin; Kovačević, Jelena (1995). Wavelets and Subband Coding. Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-1484886991.
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