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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 and a former dean of the New York University Tandon School of Engineering at New York University (NYU) in 2018-2024.[1] After her deanship, she returned to the faculty at NYU.

Education

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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.[2][3]

Career

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Kovačević became head of NYU Tandon School of Engineering in 2018, the first woman to do so in the school's 164-year history.[4] At the end of her five-year term in May 2023, she announced she would be stepping down on August 31, 2024. [1]

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".[5][6][7] A fellow of the IEEE[8] and EURASIP,[9] 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,[10] the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award in 2016,[11] and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS) Career Achievement Award in 2022.[12]

Family

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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

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  1. ^ a b "A new chapter | NYU Tandon School of Engineering". engineering.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-22.
  2. ^ "From Biomedical Imaging to Online Blogs: Graph Signal Processing | Electrical Engineering". www.ee.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
  3. ^ "Jelena Kovačević". jelena.ece.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
  4. ^ Communications, NYU Web. "Jelena Kovačević Named Dean of Tandon School of Engineering". www.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-22.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Kovacevic, Jelena; Vetterli, Martin (12 April 1995). Wavelets and Subband Coding. Prentice Hall PTR. ISBN 9780130970800. Retrieved 12 April 2018 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ Kovacevic, Jelena; Goyal, Vivek K.; Vetterli, Martin (January 17, 2013). Fourier and Wavelet Signal Processing. Cambridge University Press. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.384.5776.
  8. ^ "Jelena Kovacevic Profile, IEEE". Retrieved 2023-06-22.
  9. ^ "EURASIP Fellows". Retrieved 2023-06-22.
  10. ^ "Kovačević earns highest faculty distinction". 2016-05-13. Retrieved 2023-06-22.
  11. ^ "IEEE Signal Processing Society Award Recipients". Retrieved 2023-06-22.
  12. ^ "Dean Jelena Kovačević received the 2022 EMBS Career Achievement Award". Retrieved 2023-06-22.
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