Immigrant Computer Scientists

Episode 3. Interview with Jelena Mirkovic, Research Associate Professor at University of Southern California and Information Sciences Institute (ISI). Leader in the security and networking field, and in building the well-known DeterLab testbed. Immigrant from Yugoslavia to the US for her PhD in 1998, went to high school and university in Belgrade during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s.

Episode 2. Interview with Nenad Medvidovic, Professor of Computer Science at University of Southern California. IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Scientist. Leader in  Software Engineering research community. Twice-Immigrant from Yugoslavia to  US in high school and for Bachelors degree in 1980s.

Episode 1. Immigration stories from two Professors of Computer Science, and a Distinguished Technologist in Tech Industry. Featuring: Nenad Medvidovic (IEEE Fellow, Professor at USC), Jelena Mirkovic (Research Professor at USC), and Dejan Milojicic (IEEE Fellow, Distinguished Technologist at HP Labs). All three were immigrants from Yugoslavia.

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Trailer for Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast. Prominent and distinguished Computer Scientists from academia and industry narrate their personal experiences of immigrating from where they grew up, to a completely different land (often the US), for study, work, or other reasons. Intended for a General Audience.