Milenkovic elevated as IEEE Fellow for DNA data storage work
12/20/2017
ECE ILLINOIS Professor Olgica Milenkovic has been elevated as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She is also a researcher at the Coordinated Science Lab and affiliated with the Beckman Institute at Illinois. She is one of 35 women elevated this year, a record number for the organization.
Four other Illinois faculty members were also named as IEEE Fellows this year, including three who are ECE ILLINOIS affiliates. CS @ ILLINOIS Professor Marco Caccamo was honored "for contributions to the theory and applications of hard real-time multicore computing," and Mechanical Science and Engineering Professors Andrew G Alleyne and Naira Hovakimyan were recognized "for contributions to the control of thermal management systems" and "for contributions to control with applications to aerospace and robotic systems," respectively. All three are also affiliated with the Coordinated Science Lab. Hovakimyan is also afilliated with the Beckman Institute.