She works as a professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade and as a research professor at Polytechnic University of New York.[3] She was also an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University, NYC, and worked at AT&T Labs Research from 1999 until 2004.[4] Her area of research are the architecture and the design of the high-capacity Internet routers. She is the author of numerous conference and journal papers in the area of high performance switching and routing. She is the inventor of nine US patents, and of one patent application. Some of these patents have been patented in Europe, Japan and China as well. She was the Editor of OSA Journal on Optical Networking from 2003 until 2009,[5] and of IEEE Communication Letters since 2005.[6] Her main inventions are the sequential greedy scheduling (SGS) that provides non-blocking through the packet-switched cross-bars, flexible multicasting in high-capacity Internet routers, and a routing algorithm based on load-balancing (LB-SPR).[citation needed]
Personal life
Aleksandra's mother Vladana Likar-Smiljanić is a famous Serbian illustrator of children's books.
