Aleksandra Smiljanic
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Aleksandra Smiljanić was the Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society in the Government of Serbia
between 2007 and 2008 succeeded by Jasna Matić
.
, she graduated at the University of Belgrade
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
. Later she received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Princeton University
in 1996 and 1999 respectively.
She works as a professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade and as a research professor at Polytechnic University of New York
. She was also an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University, NYC, and worked at AT&T Labs Research from 1999 until 2004. Her area of research are the architecture and the design of the high-capacity Internet routers. She is the author of numerous conference and journal papers in the area of high performance switching and routing. She is the inventor of nine US patents, and of one patent application. Some of these patents have been patented in Europe, Japan and China as well. She was the editor of OSA Journal on Optical Networking from 2003 until 2009, and of IEEE Communication Letters
since 2005. Her main inventions are the sequential greedy scheduling (SGS) that provides non-blocking through the packet-switched cross-bars, flexible multicasting in high-capacity Internet routers, and a routing algorithm based on load-balancing (LB-SPR).
Aleksandra's mother Vladana Likar-Smiljanić
is a famous Serbian illustrator of children's books.
Government of Serbia
Officially the Government of the Republic of Serbia is the executive branch of government in Serbia.-Current government:The current government was elected on 7 July 2008 by the majority vote in the National Assembly of Serbia and restructured on 14 March 2011...
between 2007 and 2008 succeeded by Jasna Matić
Jasna Matic
Jasna Matić is a Serbian business consultant and politician.She was born in Belgrade and received a degree in civil engineering in 1994 from the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Civil Engineering as well as a degree in business administration in 2001 from Washington University in St...
.
Biography
Aleksandra Smiljanić was born in Belgrade in 1970. After competing secondary education at Matematička gimnazijaMatematicka gimnazija
Matematička gimnazija , is a special school for gifted and talented students of mathematics, physics and informatics located in Belgrade, Serbia...
, she graduated at the University of Belgrade
University of Belgrade
The University of Belgrade is the oldest and largest university of Serbia.Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-based departments into a single university...
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
University of Belgrade Faculty of Electrical Engineering
The Faculty of Electrical Engineering is a constituent body of the University of Belgrade. It is the largest electrical engineering and informatics school in Serbia....
. Later she received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
in 1996 and 1999 respectively.
She works as a professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade and as a research professor at Polytechnic University of New York
Polytechnic University of New York
The Polytechnic Institute of New York University, often referred to as Polytechnic Institute of NYU, NYU Polytechnic, or NYU-Poly, is the engineering and applied sciences affiliate of New York University...
. She was also an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University, NYC, and worked at AT&T Labs Research from 1999 until 2004. Her area of research are the architecture and the design of the high-capacity Internet routers. She is the author of numerous conference and journal papers in the area of high performance switching and routing. She is the inventor of nine US patents, and of one patent application. Some of these patents have been patented in Europe, Japan and China as well. She was the editor of OSA Journal on Optical Networking from 2003 until 2009, and of IEEE Communication Letters
IEEE Communications Society
The IEEE Communications Society is a professional society of the IEEE. It is also known by the abbreviation ComSoc. The Society focuses on two principal areas: the science of, and education about, communications engineering with the goal of advancing the state of the field; and professional...
since 2005. Her main inventions are the sequential greedy scheduling (SGS) that provides non-blocking through the packet-switched cross-bars, flexible multicasting in high-capacity Internet routers, and a routing algorithm based on load-balancing (LB-SPR).
Aleksandra's mother Vladana Likar-Smiljanić
Vladana Likar-Smiljanic
Vladana Likar-Smiljanić made a variety of contributions, most famously as an illustrator of children’s books but also in electrical engineering...
is a famous Serbian illustrator of children's books.