Talk:Jelena Kovačević

2023-06-22: Changes to address recent inaccurate and dubious updates

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I made fairly significant edits to subject's page to correct inaccurate information that was added in May 2023 about subject institution's U.S. News & World Report rankings and to correct inferred reason for subject's decision to step down, which was speculative and inaccurate. The recent edits implied the subject had stepped down as a direct result of a change in rank, which was incorrect given that the institution was aware of the subject's decision to step down prior to any change in ranking, and given that the drop in rank was due to U.S. News & World Report changing the underlying rankings methodology and not a negative change in institutional metrics, which improved during her tenure – I added references verifying those those improvements and the methodology change. I also removed inaccurate information about subject's parents' careers and cause of death, and dubious speculation about potential mental state that did not appear to be good-faith edits. I also updated or added references for books, awards, academic conferences, and other biographical information that was either missing or out-of-date. Facereiusrei (talk) 21:51, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

COI editing / removal of promotional and non-independently sourced text

It seems that this article has been the subject of WP:COI editing over a number of years, including (to a degree) by the subject and also by other WP:SPA users.

The article has a pronounced promotional / resume-like tone, so I have removed the following elements of text:

1) Under her leadership, NYU Tandon experienced significant growth in enrollment from more than 5,000 students in Fall 2015 to more than 7,500 students by the Spring of 2023,[5] as well as a growth in research expenditures from $20.7M in FY2015 to $59M in FY2024.[5] The school also rose to a record high #33 in the U.S. News and World Report Best Graduate Engineering School Rankings in the edition published in 2022,[6] before reverting to #41 in the edition published in 2024[7] after U.S. News and World Report made significant changes to the methodology with which it calculated graduate engineering school rankings for both the 2023 and 2024 editions.[8][9] Removed as purely promotional in intent.

2) She has been a keynote or invited speaker at a number of academic conferences.[11] Her research interests include applying data science to a number of domains such as biology, medicine and smart infrastructure. She is also an authority on multiresolution techniques, such as wavelets and frames.[20] Removed as the sources are not independent of the subject (the first is the subject’s profile at their employer’s website, the second is a book that she co-wrote).

3) From 2014-2018, she was department head of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.[10] Prior to that, she was a professor of biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon, which she joined in 2003. She was also an adjunct professor at Columbia University and worked at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey from 1991-2002.[11] Removed as sources are again non-independent (one is the same as above, the other is a press release).

I have not removed the various awards, but since none of them seem to be linked to articles about those awards on Wikipedia there must be some question about whether they pass the bar of being significant enough for inclusion in the article. Further info on this would be appreciated. Axad12 (talk) 14:51, 27 September 2024 (UTC)