Faculty Profile
Olgica Milenkovic
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
Administrative Titles
- Donald Biggar Willett Scholar
Affiliation
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
Primary Research Area
- Communications - Coding theory and applications
Profile Sections
Education
- PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2002
- MSc, Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2001
Academic Positions
- Visiting Professor, University of California, San Diego 2006-2007
- Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder 2002-2007
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Major Consulting Activities
- Consultant, Bell Labs-Lucent Technology, May 2005 - May 2006
Research Statement
The current research focus of our group is on
1) Developing new approaches for studying problems in bioinformatics and bioengineering using coding and information theory. In particular, we investigate fundamental questions pertaining to design methodologies for DNA microarrays with error- and quality-control features and DNA microarrays that utilize compressed sensing principles.
2) Providing a bridge between the theory of compressed sensing and superimposed coding; non-linear compressive sensing with quantization and fault-tolerant sensing algorithms.
3) Using coding and information theory to study problems such as RNA folding, reverse engineering of gene-regulatory networks, and cost-constrained genome reversal distances.
4) Constructing and analyzing codes on graphs and developing new methods for studying the combinatorial properties of random ensembles of low-density parity-check codes. Our studies mainly focus on the computational complexity of problems quantifying the error-floor phenomena.
5) Analyzing the connections between network coding, matroid theory, and algebraic coding theory.
6) Analyzing the average case complexity of algorithms in coding theory and computer algebra.
Research Interests
- Hypergraph clustering
- DNA-Based Data Storage, Coding for DNA-Based Data Storage, String Reconstruction
- Community Detection via Correlation Clustering
- Social Sciences and Voting Theory
- Rank aggregation
- Compressive Sensing
- Signal Processing
- Information Theory
- Constrained Coding
- Error-Control Coding (Algebraic/Iterative)
- Bioinformatics
- Analysis of Algorithms
Research Areas
- Algorithms and computational complexity
- Biosensors and bioelectronics
- Coding theory and applications
- Communications
- Dynamic games and decision theory
- Fault tolerance and reliability
- Information theory
- Random processes
- Signal detection and estimation
- Signal Processing
- VLSI in communications
Research Topics
- Bioelectronics and Bioinformatics
- Computational science and engineering
- Data science and analytics
- Data/Information Science and Systems
- Distributed computing and storage systems
- Genomics
- Machine learning
- Network science and engineering
- Sensing systems
- Socio-technical systems and networking
Journal Editorships
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Molecular Communication, 2016-2017
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2011-2013
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2009-2011
- Guest Editor in Chief, Special Issue on Information Theory in Molecular Biology and Neuroscience, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2008.
- Associate Editor for Coding Theory, IEEE Transactions on Communication Theory, 2007-2010.
Research Honors
- Top-three paper award, WCMB'08, Leipzig, Germany (2008)
- NSF Career Award (2007)
- DARPA Young Faculty Award (2007)
- Runner-up for best paper award (honorable mentioning), ICC'06, Istanbul, Turkey (2006)
- Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan (2001)
- Best Undergraduate Thesis Award, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Nis, Yugoslavia