Aleksandra Smiljanić, Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society

Born in Belgrade in 1970. She graduated the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade, after which she received her MA and PhD at Princeton University in 1996 and 1999 respectively. She teaches at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade and is associate professor at Polytechnic University of New York and Stony Brook University, NYC. Her area of research is the architecture and the internal control for high-capacity packet switches. She has also worked on the scheduling algorithms for packet-switched ring networks. She is author of numerous conference and journal papers in the area of high performance switching and routing. She is the inventor of seven US patents, and of two patent applications. Some of these patents have been patented in Europe, Japan and China as well. She is the editor of OSA Journal on Optical Networking since 2003, and of IEEE Communication Letters since 2005.