Jelena Kovačević is aSerbian American engineering professor at theNew York University Tandon School of Engineering. She served as dean of the school from 2018-2024.^[1]

Kovačević received her Engineering Diploma Degree in electrical engineering from theUniversity of Belgrade and her MS and PhD fromColumbia University, under doctoral advisorMartin Vetterli, with whom she later co-authored multiple books on signal processing and wavelet theory.^[2][3]

Kovačević became head of NYU Tandon School of Engineering in 2018, the first woman to do so in the school's 164-year history.^[4] At the end of her five-year term in May 2023, she announced she would be stepping down on August 31, 2024.^[1]

Kovačević  is an elected fellow of the IEEE^[5] and EURASIP.^[6] 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,^[7] and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS) Career Achievement Award in 2022.^[8]

Jelena Kovačević was born to Margita Kovačević andŽivorad Kovačević, the latter of whom was a Yugoslav politician, diplomat, and academic, who was the 60thMayor of Belgrade in 1974-1982 andYugoslavia's Ambassador to the United States in 1987-1989, when he was recalled after his disapproval ofSlobodan Milosević's regime.

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