Jelena  Jelena Tešić

Pronunciation: Yeh-LE-nah TE-shich

E-mail: jtesic -@- ucsbalum.net

Now: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Jelena Tešić is a Research Staff Member in the Intelligent Information Analysis Group at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York. She received the Dipl. Ing. degree from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1998, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1999 and 2004, respectively.

Jelena's current research work is in the areas of multimedia management, content and social network analysis, scalable indexing, learning, and semantic mining. She has made several contributions to boost the top performance of the IBM team in 2004-2007 TREC Video Retrieval benchmark organized by NIST. Her prior work includes topic in computer vision, image processing, and pattern recognition applied to various medical, geographical, and space multimedia collections.

Collaborative Tagging of Multimedia, Special Issue IEEE Multimedia Magazine [pdf].