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Ljiljana Trajkovic

Position and company: Professor of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University
Country of work: Canada
Degree Attained at UCLA: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Graduation Year: 1986
Ljiljana Trajkovic with colleagues Could you tell us about your journey to UCLA?
Graduate studies at UCLA were a great experience and an important step in my education and career development as a researcher.

 
Could you speak about your career and how it has progressed since graduating from UCLA?
Prior to joining Simon Fraser University, I held positions of Visiting Lecturer at the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science; Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories; Research Scientist at Bell Communications Research; and Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

What inspired or motivated you to pursue work abroad? Was this always your plan?
I preferred to pursue a career in academia and, hence, accepted an offer for a tenure-track position abroad.