I am a Professor of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University. My professional interests revolve around signal processing, machine learning, and their applications in image and video processing, coding, communications, and collaborative intelligence. My group's work has received a number of international recognitions, including the 2023 IEEE TCSVT Best Paper Award, conference paper awards at ISCAS 2023, MMSP 2022, ICIP 2019, and ICME 2012, as well as other recognitions (e.g., paper award finalist, top n%) at Asilomar, ICIP, ICME, ISBI, and CVPR.

I have served on the organizing and program committees of the main conferences in my field, and have received several awards in these roles, including Outstanding Reviewer Award (six times), Outstanding Area Chair Award, and Outstanding Service Award. I was the Chair of the Vancouver Chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2013-2019, during which the Chapter received the Chapter of the Year Award from IEEE SPS. I was the Chair of the IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee during 2022-2023. I have previously served on editorial boards of several journals, including IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and Signal Processing: Image Communication.

I was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1976. I received the B.Sc.Eng. degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Natal, South Africa, in 1998, and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, the M.S. degree in Mathematics, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, in 2000, 2002, and 2003, respectively.