BIOSKETCH
 
Serap Savari is an Associate Professor in the Department
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received an
S.B. degree in electrical engineering, an S.M.degree in 
electrical engineering and computer science, an S.M. degree 
in operations research, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical 
engineering and computer science, all from MIT. 
Professor Savari was a Member of Technical Staff in the Computing 
Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies 
from 1996-2003. Her research interests include information theory, 
data compression, computer and communication systems, 
and data networks. Professor Savari was an Associate Editor 
for Source Coding for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
from 2002-2005. She was the Bell Labs representative to the DIMACS 
council from 2001-2003, and has been a member of the program committees 
for the 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005 IEEE International Symposia on Information
Theory, the 2004 and 2006 IEEE Information Theory Workshops and the 2000-2005 
IEEE Data Compression Conferences.