Olgica Milenkovic

Olgica Milenkovic

Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Areas of Research

Brain Cancer, Breast Cancer, DNA, Drug Design, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Information Science, Machine Learning

Research Program and Theme

Cancer Technology and Data Science | Computational Engineering and Data Science

Research Focus

Olgica Milenkovic, PhD, is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and a Research Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory. Prof. Milenkovic heads a group working on interdisciplinary algorithmic, machine learning, and signal processing problems in computational cancer genomics. Her recent work includes cancer pathway inference via hypergraph clustering methods, cancer gene prioritization via parallel rank aggregation methods, and driver gene discovery based on novel discrete optimization strategies. Visit her research group’s website for more information.

Education

  • PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan, 2002

Campus Affiliations

Select Honors and Recognitions

  • IEEE Fellow, 2018
  • NSF CAREER Award, 2007