Dr. Jelena Tesic
Associate Professor - Computer Science
Research Areas:
Dr. Tešić's research project spans topics in machine learning and data science for large unstructured imagery, social, health, and sensor data sources. More details on the current projects can be found on https://DataLab12.github.io page.
Background
Jelena Tešić is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and a founding member and a research lead in the Center for Analytics and Data Science at the Texas State Unviersity in San Marcos, Texas, USA. From 2009 to 2017 Dr. Tešić was a senior research scientist @ Mayachitra Inc. in California. From 2004 to 2009, Dr. Tešić was a Research Staff Member at IBM Watson Research Center in New York. Dr. Tešić received her Ph.D. (2004), M.Sc. (1999) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California Santa Barbara, CA, USA, and Dipl. Ing. (1998) in Electrical Engineering from University of Belgrade, Serbia. Dr. Tešić's research is to develop novel AI methods and scalable algorithms for analyzing large, unstructured multi-modal multi-source data at scale. She holds seven U.S. patents: 12,093,970; 9,710,760; 8,738,695; 8,032,539; 7,958,068; 7,818,329; and 7,707,162. Her research has been sponsored by DoD, DoE, NSF, TxDoT, and the industry. Dr. Tešić is a co-organizer of the 2027 ACM ICMR, and she is an IEEE and NAI senior member. Her articles and patents were cited over 3370 times with h-index of 24 and i10-index of 38, per Google Scholar.