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
- Franklin W. Woeltge Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Professor, Coordinated Science Lab
- Professor, Statistics
- Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
- Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Select Honors and Recognitions
- IEEE Fellow, 2018
- NSF CAREER Award, 2007