Aleksandra Smiljanić Explained

Aleksandra Smiljanić
Native Name:Александра Смиљанић
Native Name Lang:sr
Order:Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technologies
Term Start:15 May 2007
Term End:7 July 2008
Predecessor:Position established
Successor:Jasna Matić
Birth Date:12 June 1970
Birth Place:Belgrade, Serbia
Education:Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Nationality:Serbian

Aleksandra Smiljanić (Serbian: Александра Смиљанић; born 12 June 1970) was the Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technologies in the Government of Serbia from 2007 to 2008.

Education and career

Aleksandra Smiljanić was born in Belgrade in 1970. After competing secondary education at Matematička gimnazija, she graduated at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Electrical Engineering.[1] Later she received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Princeton University in 1996 and 1999 respectively.[2]

She works as a professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade and as a research professor at Polytechnic University of New York.[3] She was also an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University, NYC, and worked at AT&T Labs Research from 1999 until 2004.[4] 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,[5] and of IEEE Communication Letters since 2005.[6] 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).

Personal life

Aleksandra's mother Vladana Likar-Smiljanić is a famous Serbian illustrator of children's books.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The School of Electrical Engineering, Belgrade University.
  2. Web site: Engineering Alumna Served as Serbia's First Telecommunications and Information Minister. Princeton University, School of Engineering and Applied Science.
  3. Web site: People-Electrical and Computer Engineering, NYU Poly. NYU.
  4. Web site: AT&T Labs Research. AT&T.
  5. Web site: Journal on Optical Networking. OSA.
  6. Web site: IEEE Communication Letters. IEEE.