Bio: Natasha Devroye has been an Assistant Professor in the Department  
of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois  
at Chicago since January 2009. From July 2007 until July 2008 she was  
a Lecturer at Harvard University. Natasha obtained her Ph.D in  
Engineering Sciences from the School of Engineering and Applied  
Sciences at Harvard University in 2007,  an M.Sc from Harvard  
University in 2003 and a Honors B. Eng in Electrical Engineering from  
McGill University in 2001.  She has worked as a research intern at  
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA as well as Mitsubishi Electric  
Research Labs, in Cambridge, MA. Her interests include multi-user  
information theory, wireless communications, and scheduling. She in  
particularly focused on information theoretic limits of  cognitive and  
cooperative communications.