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Jelena Kovačević (jelenak@cmu.edu)

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Jelena Kovačević is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of the Center for Bioimage Informatics at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests include bioimaging as well as multiresolution techniques such as wavelets and frames.

She received the Dipl. Electr. Eng. degree from the EE Department, Univ. of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1986, and the MS and PhD degrees from Columbia Univ., New York, NY, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. From 1991-2002, she was with Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ. She was a co-founder and Technical VP of xWaveforms, based in New York City, NY. She was also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Univ. In 2003, she joined Carnegie Mellon Univ.

She is a Fellow of the IEEE and a coauthor (with Martin Vetterli) of the book Wavelets and Subband Coding (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995). She coauthored the paper for which Aleksandra Mojsilović received the Young Author Best Paper Award. Her paper on multidimensional filter banks and wavelets (with Martin Vetterli) was selected as one of the Fundamental Papers in Wavelet Theory. She received the Belgrade October Prize in 1986 and the E.I. Jury Award at Columbia Univ. in 1991.

She was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Trans. on Image Processing. She served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, as a Guest Co-Editor (with Ingrid Daubechies) of the Special Issue on Wavelets of the Proceedings of the IEEE, Guest Co-Editor (with Martin Vetterli) of the Special Issue on Transform Coding of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and Guest Co-Editor (with Robert F. Murphy) of the Special Issue on Molecular and Cellular Bioimaging of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. She is/was on the Editorial Boards of the Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing, SIAM book series on Computational Science and Engineering, Journ. of Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, Journ. of Fourier Analysis and Applications and the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.

She is a regular member of the NIH Microscopic Imaging Study Section. From 2000-2002, she served as a Member-at-Large of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors. She is the Chair of the Bio Imaging and Signal Processing Technical Committee. She was the General Chair of ISBI 06, General Co-Chair (with Vivek Goyal) of the DIMACS Workshop on Source Coding and Harmonic Analysis and General Co-Chair (with Jan Allebach) of the Ninth IMDSP Workshop.

She was a plenary/keynote speaker at the MIAAB Workshop 07, Statistical Signal Processing Workshop 07, Wavelet Workshop 06, NORSIG 06, ICIAR 05, Fields Workshop 05, DCC 98 as well as SPIE 98.