Notable women in technology [Jelena Kovačević]
In 2018, Jelena Kovačević became the first woman to head NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering since its founding in 1854. She has also taught at Columbia University and at Carnegie Mellon University, where she headed the Electrical and Computer Engineering department and taught biomedical engineering. From 2008 to 2012, Kovačević served as a regular member of the NIH Enabling Bioanalytical and Imaging Technologies (EBIT) Study Section and has also been a member-at-large of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors. In 2016, she served on the organizing committee for the Graph Signal Processing Workshop held at the University of Pennsylvania.