Natasha Devroye

Natasha Devroye is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where she has been affiliated since January 2009. She previously held a Lecturer position at Harvard University (2007-2008) and earned her Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University in 2007 and an Honors B.Eng in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in 2001.

Her research specializes in multi-user information theory with applications to cognitive and software-defined radio, radar, massive multiple-access, low-latency communication, and hardware security systems. She has made significant contributions to wireless communication networks, including two-way, relay, and zero-error communication models.

• NSF CAREER Award (2011)
• UIC Rising Star Award (2012)
• IEEE Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer (2019-2020)

She currently serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and previously held editorial roles for other IEEE journals. She co-chaired the Women in Information Theory Society from 2015-2018.