Jelena Tešić | Professional Biography
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Education
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2004.
Vision Research Lab,University of California,Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Dissertation title: "Managing Large-scale Multimedia Repositories", Advisor: B.S.Manjunath.
M.S. , Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1999.
ECE Department,
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Curriculum Focus: Digital Signal Processing and Communications.
Dipl. Ing., Electrical Engineering, 1998.
School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Thesis title: "Noise Reduction in CDMA Receivers",
Advisor: Z. Dobrosavljević.
Experience
Research Staff Member, May 2004 - present
Intelligent Information Analysis Group, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY
Graduate Student Researcher, July 1999 - March 2004.
Vision Research Lab, University of
California, Santa Barbara, CA
Teaching Assistant, September 1998 - June 1999, January - June 2003.
ECE Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Summer Intern, June 2000 - September 2000.
Multimedia Asset Management Group, HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA
IAESTE Intern, November 1997 - February 1998.
Department of Communications, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, June 1997 - September 1997.
Earth and Space Science Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratories, Pasadena, CA
Professional Activities
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on Collaborative Tagging of Multimedia, deadline is May 20, 2007 [pdf].
- Referee for the ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, IEEE Multimedia Transaction, IEEE Multimedia and IEEE Signal Processing
Magazines, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, EURASIP and TKDE.
- Technical Program Committee for IEEE ICME 2005,
2006, 2007, CIVR 2006, 2005 SIAM SDM Workshop on Mining Scientific
and Engineering, IEEE ICIP 2004 and 2005 IBM Student Paper award.
Panelist
- Diversity in Multimedia Retrieval Research, 8th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information
Retrieval In conjunction with ACM Multimedia, Santa Barbara, October
2006.
- Experienced TA Panel for TA Orientation,and workshop lecturer on "TAing Engineering
Sections," campus-wide Teaching Assistant Orientation, University of
California, Santa Barbara, CA, September 2003. [link]
Mentor
- Co-leader of LEGO Robotics workshop in EXITE camp in 2006, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY.
- Mentor to 8th grade Bronx students for First Lego League
NYC 2005-2006 - 14th out of 86 schools in the city, 2nd out of 31 schools in Bronx.
- Volunteer, LEGO Robotics Workshop in EXITE Camp 2004 and 2005, IBM T.J. Watson Research
Center, NY.
Seminars
- "Learning the Semantics of Multimedia Queries and Concepts from a Small Number of Examples" ECE Seminar, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, November 2005.
- "Efficient Query Processing in Relevance Feedback,"
ADVENT Seminar Series, Columbia University,
New York City, Mitsubishi
Electric Research Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, and IBM Research,
Hawthorne, NY, March 2003. [link]
- "Mining Large Image Datasets,"
Institute for Scientific Computing Research Seminar, Center for Applied
Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, October 2001.
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