Aleksandra Slavković is a Professor of Statistics and Associate Dean for Graduate Education at Pennsylvania State University's Eberly College of Science. She holds a PhD in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University (2004) and has held academic roles since 2004, including appointments at the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences and Penn State College of Medicine. Her research focuses on statistical data privacy, differential privacy, algebraic statistics, and applications in social and health sciences. She has authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications and serves on editorial boards of top journals like Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality and Annals of Applied Statistics . Slavković has received major honors including Fellowships from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2021) and American Statistical Association (2018). She leads initiatives to enhance graduate education, including the Science Achievement Graduate Fellows Program, and actively promotes diversity in STEM through her leadership roles. Her recent work emphasizes privacy-preserving techniques for genomic, healthcare, and network data, with contributions to synthetic data generation and secure multiparty computation protocols. Her academic service includes chairing ASA committees and advising at the National Academy of Sciences. She maintains collaborative ties with institutions like Cornell University and UC Berkeley through visiting scholar programs, and her research bridges statistics, computer science, and applied mathematics.
