Holds seven U.S. patents; Research has been sponsored by DoD, DoE, NSF, TxDoT, and the industry; Chair for ACM Multimedia, ACM MMSys, IEEE ICIP, and ICME, and co-organizer for the 2027 ICMR; IEEE and NAI senior member; As of August 2025, her articles and patents were cited over 3335 times with h-index of 24 and i10-index of 35.
Research Experience
Senior Research Scientist @ Mayachitra Inc. from 2009 to 2017; Research Staff Member at IBM Watson Research Center in New York from 2004 to 2009; Currently, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and a founding member and research lead in the Center for Analytics and Data Science at Texas State University.
Education
Ph.D. (2004), Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara; M.Sc. (1999), Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara; Dipl. Ing. (1998), Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia.
Background
Research Interest: Developing novel AI methods and scalable algorithms for analyzing large, unstructured multi-modal multi-source data. Professional Field: Computer Science.