Olgica Milenkovic received the MSc degree in mathematics and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2001 and 2002, respectively. She is the Franklin W. Woeltge Professor of electrical and computer engineering with the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (UIUC). Her scholarly contributions have been recognised by multiple awards, including the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award, the Deans Excellence in Research Award, and several Best Paper Awards. In 2013, she was elected a UIUC Center for Advanced Study Associate and a Willett Scholar, while in 2015, she was a elected Distinguished Lecturer of the Information Theory Society. She was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and the IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications. In 2009 and 2020, she was the Guest Editor in Chief of special issues of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. She is a Fellow of the IEEE.