Jelena Kovačević
{{short description|Serbian American engineering professor}}
{{for|the Serbian politician|Jelena Žarić Kovačević}}
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| education = University of Belgrade (BEE)
Columbia University (PhD)
| occupation = Professor at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering
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| nationality = American
| birth_place = Belgrade
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| father = Živorad Kovačević
| known_for = Books : "Wavelets and Subband Coding" and "Foundations of Signal Processing"
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| doctoral_advisor = Martin Vetterli
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Jelena Kovačević is a Serbian American engineering professor at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. She served as dean of the school from 2018-2024.{{Cite web |last=Horvath |first=Bruna |date=May 3, 2023 |title=Tandon dean to step down next year |url=https://nyunews.com/news/2023/05/03/tandon-dean-steps-down/ |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=Washington Square News}}
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.{{Cite web |title=From Biomedical Imaging to Online Blogs: Graph Signal Processing {{!}} Electrical Engineering |url=https://www.ee.columbia.edu/biomedical-imaging-online-blogs-graph-signal-processing-0 |access-date=2023-01-02 |website=www.ee.columbia.edu}}{{Cite web |title=Jelena Kovačević |url=http://jelena.ece.cmu.edu/ |access-date=2023-01-02 |website=jelena.ece.cmu.edu}}
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.{{Cite web |last=Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |date=2024-10-31 |title=Jelena Kovačević: Biography |url=https://ieeetv.ieee.org/speaker/jelena-kovacevic |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=IEEETV |language=en}} At the end of her five-year term in May 2023, she announced she would be stepping down on August 31, 2024.
Kovačević is an elected fellow of the IEEE {{Cite web |last=Goodrich |first=Joanna |date=April 29, 2019 |title=Q&A With Jelena Kovačević, Dean of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering The IEEE Fellow talks about her career and her efforts to inspire other women to enter the field |url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/qa-with-jelena-kovaevi-dean-of-the-nyu-tandon-school-of-engineering |access-date=October 31, 2024 |website=IEEE Spectrum}} and EURASIP.{{Cite web |last=European Association of Signal Processing |date=2012 |title=EURASIP Fellows |url=https://eurasip.org/eurasip-fellows/ |access-date=October 31, 2024 |website=EURASIP}} She is a recipient of the "Belgrade October Prize," the "E.I. Jury Award" from Columbia University, the "CIT Philip L. Dowd Fellowship Award" from Carnegie Mellon University, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award in 2016,{{Cite web |last=IEEE Women in Engineering |date=2018 |title=JELENA KOVAČEVIĆ |url=https://attend.ieee.org/wie-forum-usa-east-2018/speakers/jelena-kovacevic/ |access-date=October 31, 2024 |website=IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE)}} and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS) Career Achievement Award in 2022.{{Cite web |last=Zimmerman |first=Nancy |date=July 2022 |title=Academic Career Achievement Award: Jelena Kovacevic |url=https://issuu.com/embsociety/docs/ieee_embs_conference_awards_programfinal_online_ |access-date=October 31, 2024 |website=IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society}}
Family
Jelena Kovačević was born to Margita Kovačević and Živorad Kovačević, the latter of whom was 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.
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