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  • 2018 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to genomic data compression

Overview

Olgica Milenkovic is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans a combination of computer science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions in several intersecting subfields.

Their primary areas of study include molecular biology, artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, computational theory and mathematics, and management science and operations research. The main topics that Milenkovic focuses on are DNA and biological computing, advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, advanced data storage technologies, advanced graph neural networks, optimization and search problems, algorithms and data compression, and topological and geometric data analysis.

Milenkovic's recent papers include:

  • DNA punch cards for storing data on native DNA sequences via enzymatic nicking (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • Adaptive Universal Generalized PageRank Graph Neural Network (2020), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Rewritable two-dimensional DNA-based data storage with machine learning reconstruction (2022), published in Nature Communications
  • Mutually uncorrelated primers for DNA-based data storage (2020), published by DR-NTU (Nanyang Technological University)
  • Expanding the Molecular Alphabet of DNA-Based Data Storage Systems with Neural Network Nanopore Readout Processing (2022), published in Nano Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Milenkovic include:

  • Chao Pan
  • Eli Chien
  • Ryan Gabrys
  • Jianhao Peng
  • Jin Sima

Milenkovic has published extensively across several venues, with notable frequency in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Nature Communications
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications

Their work bridges computational and experimental approaches, contributing to developments in biological data storage methods as well as graph neural network algorithms.

Olgica Milenkovic was awarded the IEEE Fellow distinction in 2018 for contributions to genomic data compression.

Best Publications

  • Subspace Pursuit for Compressive Sensing Signal Reconstruction

    Wei Dai;O. Milenkovic

  • A Rewritable, Random-Access DNA-Based Storage System.

    S. M. Hossein Tabatabaei Yazdi;Yongbo Yuan;Jian Ma;Huimin Zhao

  • Combinatorial constructions of low-density parity check codes for iterative decoding

    B. Vasic;O. Milenkovic

  • Portable and Error-Free DNA-Based Data Storage

    S. M. Hossein Tabatabaei Yazdi;Ryan Gabrys;Olgica Milenkovic

  • Subspace Pursuit for Compressive Sensing: Closing the Gap Between Performance and Complexity

    Wei Dai;Olgica Milenkovic

  • DNA-Based Storage: Trends and Methods

    S. M. Hossein Tabatabaei Yazdi;Han Mao Kiah;Eva Garcia-Ruiz;Jian Ma

  • Algorithmic and combinatorial analysis of trapping sets in structured LDPC codes

    S. Landner;O. Milenkovic

  • On the design of codes for DNA computing

    Olgica Milenkovic;Navin Kashyap

  • Asymptotic Spectra of Trapping Sets in Regular and Irregular LDPC Code Ensembles

    O. Milenkovic;E. Soljanin;P. Whiting

  • Codes for DNA Sequence Profiles

    Han Mao Kiah;Gregory J. Puleo;Olgica Milenkovic

  • Shortened Array Codes of Large Girth

    O. Milenkovic;N. Kashyap;D. Leyba

  • Adaptive Universal Generalized PageRank Graph Neural Network

    Eli Chien;Jianhao Peng;Pan Li;Olgica Milenkovic

  • DNA punch cards for storing data on native DNA sequences via enzymatic nicking

    S. Kasra Tabatabaei;Boya Wang;Nagendra Bala Murali Athreya;Behnam Enghiad

  • Generalized low-density parity-check codes for optical communication systems

    I.B. Djordjevic;O. Milenkovic;B. Vasic

  • Inhomogeneous hypergraph clustering with applications

    Pan Li;Olgica Milenkovic

  • Hybrid ARQ: Theory, State of the Art and Future Directions

    C. Lott;O. Milenkovic;E. Soljanin

  • Compressive Sensing DNA Microarrays

    Wei Dai;Mona A Sheikh;Olgica Milenkovic;Richard G Baraniuk

  • Block-circulant low-density parity-check codes for optical communication systems

    O. Milenkovic;I.B. Djordjevic;B. Vasic

  • Distortion-rate functions for quantized compressive sensing

    Wei Dai;Hoa Vinh Pham;Olgica Milenkovic

  • Error-Correction in Flash Memories via Codes in the Ulam Metric

    Farzad Farnoud;Vitaly Skachek;Olgica Milenkovic

  • LDPC Codes Based on Latin Squares: Cycle Structure, Stopping Set, and Trapping Set Analysis

    S. Laendner;O. Milenkovic

  • On the Hardness of Approximating Stopping and Trapping Sets

    A. McGregor;O. Milenkovic

Frequent Co-Authors

Bane Vasic
Bane Vasic University of Arizona
Johannes B. Huber
Johannes B. Huber University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Huimin Zhao
Huimin Zhao University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Charles J. Colbourn
Charles J. Colbourn Arizona State University
Venugopal V. Veeravalli
Venugopal V. Veeravalli University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Emina Soljanin
Emina Soljanin Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Alon Orlitsky
Alon Orlitsky University of California, San Diego
Richard G. Baraniuk
Richard G. Baraniuk Rice University
Eitan Yaakobi
Eitan Yaakobi Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Angelia Nedic
Angelia Nedic Arizona State University

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