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Dr. Jelena Tesic

  • Associate Professor - Computer Science
Portrait of Dr. Jelena Tesic

Biography and education

2004 Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara
1999 M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
1998 Dipl. Ing. Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Full bio: https://jtesic.github.io

Teaching Interests

Research Interests

  • Liu, Xiangping (Principal), Percent Contribution: %10, Tesic, Jelena (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %3, Balaji Bhaskar, Maruthi Sridhar (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %3, Abongwa, Pride (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %10, Jayachandran, Krishnaswamy (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %3. Comprehensive Experiential Learnings to Promote Climate Resilient Agriculture for Under-Represented Minority Students, USDA NIFA HSI, Federal, $1200000. (Submitted: February 7, 2024, Funded: October 1, 2024 - September 2028). Grant.
  • Ekin, Tahir (Principal), Tesic, Jelena (Co-Principal), Qasem, Apan Muhammad (Co-Principal), Valles Molina, Damian (Co-Principal), Summers, Lucia (Co-Principal), Hewitt, Barbara A (Supporting), Liu, Xiangping (Supporting), Chang, Carolyn T (Supporting), Mendez, Francis A (Supporting), Irvin, Jennifer A (Supporting), Resendiz, Maria D (Supporting). Expanding AI Curriculum and Infrastructure at Texas State University to Advance Interdisciplinary Research and Grow a Diverse AI Workforce, National Science Foundation, Federal, $400000. (Submitted: June 2023, Funded: January 2024 - December 2025). Grant.
  • Faroughi, Salah Aldin (Principal), Tesic, Jelena (Co-Principal), Tiefenbacher, John P (Co-Principal). ESMs Latent Space Exploration for Uncertainty Quantification and Spatiotemporal Downscaling, DOE-BER, Federal, $150000. (Funded: August 2022 - June 2024). Grant.
  • Tesic, Jelena. Object Cueing Using Biomimetic Approaches to Visual Information Processing, NAVAIR, Federal, $199708. (Submitted: September 18, 2020, Funded: January 11, 2021 - December 17, 2022). Grant.
  • Tesic, Jelena. NAVAIR SBIR N14A-T008, Navy, Federal, $307005. (Submitted: October 15, 2017, Funded: March 19, 2018 - August 31, 2020). Grant.
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  • Scouten, A., Gong, H., Tesic, J., & Wang, F. (n.d.). Deep Learning Pipeline for Modeling Pavement Cracks with an Imbalanced Dataset (MoPaC).
  • Elizondo, M., Yu, J., Payan, D., Feng, L., & Tesic, J. (2025). Novel Considerations in the ML/AI Modeling of Large-Scale Learning Loss. IEEE Access, 13, 7780–7792. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2025.3526412
  • Biswas, D., & Tesic, J. (2024). Domain Adaptation With Contrastive Learning for Object Detection in Satellite Imagery. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 62, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1109/tgrs.2024.3391621
  • Rahman, M. M. M., & Tesic, J. (2024). Stratified Graph Indexing for Efficient Search in Deep Descriptor Databases. International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval, 13(3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13735-024-00342-8
  • Shebaro, M., Nogueira, L., & Tesic, J. (2024). Improving Association Discovery through Multiview Analysis of Social Networks. Social Network Analysis and Mining. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-023-01197-3
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: College Service Award, CoSE. September 2017 - May 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: IBM First Plateau Invention Achievement Award in appreciation and recognition of creative contributions to IBM progress. July 2007
  • Award / Honor Recipient: IBM Research Division Technical Group Award has been presented for Image Filtering Benchmark Team Award. February 2007
  • Award / Honor Recipient: IBM Research Division Award for Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System. 2006
  • Award / Honor Recipient: IBM Award of Distinction for voluntarism. March 2006
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  1. Member

    TXST CADS PM hiring committee

  2. Co-Chair

    Center for Data Analytics And Science (TXST CADS)

  3. Graduate Advisor

    CoSE Fall Commencement

  4. Member

    Dean Search Committee

  5. Graduate Advisor

    Ph.D. Student Committee Recommendation

  6. Member

    IT hiring committee

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