Emina Soljanin received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, in 1989 and 1994, and the European Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1986.

From 1986 to 1988, she worked in the Energoinvest Company, Bosnia and Herzegovina, developing optimization algorithms and software for power system control. After graduating from Texas A&M in 1994, she joined Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, where she is now a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Mathematical Sciences Research Center. Her research interests are in the broad area of communications, information and coding theory, their applications to storage systems, and more recently quantum information theory.

Dr. Soljanin was the recipient of the 1992 Texas A&M University Electrical Engineering Department Fouraker fellowship. She served as a Technical Proof-Reader, 1990-1992, and as the Associate Editor for Coding Techniques, 1997-2000, for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. She has been serving as a Co-Chair for the DIMACS Special Focus on Computational Information Theory and Coding.