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 Projects: DataLab12.gitHub.io

Research Opportunities

Ph.D. student should apply through the TXST Portal.
Undergraduate and M.Sc. students:
1. Take at least one course Dr. Tešić instructs and place in top 10 in the class
2. Apply for the independent study research the next semester and under Dr. Tešić's supervision, and demonstrate meaningful progress on the project.
3. Contact Dr. Tešić for the follow up opportunities.

Teaching

Sabbatical: Spring 2026.
Introduction to Machine Learning: Fall 2025
Introduction to Recommender Systems: Fall 2024
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 Narratives

Research   Teaching   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's research is to develop novel AI methods and scalable algorithms for analyzing large, unstructured multi-modal multi-source data at scale.
She 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 is a co-organizer of the 2027 ACM ICMR, and she is an IEEE and NAI senior member. As of August 2025, her articles and patents were cited over 3400 times with h-index of 24 and i10-index of 38, [link].