Sonja Petrović

Sonja Petrović is a Serbian-American statistician and associate professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics, College of Computing, at Illinois Institute of Technology. Her research is focused on mathematical statistics and algebraic statistics, applied and computational algebraic geometry and random graph (network) models. She was elected to the International Statistics Institute in 2015.

Education and career Petrović did her undergraduate work at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and received her B.S. degree in applied mathematics, magna cum laude in 2003. She minored in music performance at Chattanooga. Petrović did her doctoral work in mathematics at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, specializing in commutative algebra. Her dissertation Algebraic and Combinatorial Properties of Certain Toric Ideals in the Theory and Applications was directed by Uwe Nagel. Petrović was awarded her Ph.D. by Kentucky in 2008.

After her doctoral studies, Petrović held a post-doctoral position at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2008 to 2011. She was a research fellow at the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, in 2009, participating in the Program on Algebraic Methods in Systems Biology and Statistics.