Jelena Tešić
Associate Professor Computer Science Department College of Science and Engineering Texas State University
Pronunciation: Yeh-LE-nah TE-shich Contact: jtesic -at- txstate.edu Lab page: DataLab12.github.io Publications on Google Scholar. Curriculum Vitae
Research
Dr. Tešić's research is to develop novel AI methods and scalable algorithms for analyzing large, unstructured multi-modal multi-source data at scale. More details on the current projects can be found on DataLab12 page.
2023 Research Narrative
Teaching
Introduction to Machine Learning: Fall 2025
Introduction to Recommender Systems : Fall 2025
Image Processing and Computer Vision (Ph.D.): Spring 2025
Data-Driven Computational Methods (Ph.D): Fall 2024
Object Oriented Design and Programming: Spring 2023
Machine Learning and Applications (M.Sc.): Fall 2021
2023 Teaching Narrative
Service
Short Bio
Jelena Tešić is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and a founding member and a research lead in the Center for Analytics and Data Science at the Texas State Unviersity in San Marcos, Texas, USA. From 2009 to 2017 Dr. Tešić was a senior research scientist @ Mayachitra Inc. in California. From 2004 to 2009, Dr. Tešić was a Research Staff Member at IBM Watson Research Center in New York. Dr. Tešić received her Ph.D. (2004), M.Sc. (1999) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California Santa Barbara, CA, USA, and Dipl. Ing. (1998) in Electrical Engineering from University of Belgrade, Serbia. Dr. Tešić holds seven U.S. patents: 12,093,970; 9,710,760; 8,738,695; 8,032,539; 7,958,068; 7,818,329; and 7,707,162. Her research has been sponsored by DoD, DoE, NSF, TxDoT, and the industry. Dr. Tešić Chair for ACM Multimedia, ACM MMSys, IEEE ICIP, and ICME, and co-organizer for the 2027 ICMR, and she is an IEEE and NAI senior member. As of August 2025, her articles and patents were cited over 3335 times with h-index of 24 and i10-index of 35. Latest Information can be found on her Google Scholar profile