Dr. Milanova is a Professor of the Computer Science Department at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock since 2001. She received an M.Sc. in Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence and Ph.D. in Engineering and Computer Science from the Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria. Dr. Milanova conducted post-doctoral research in visual perception at the University of Paderborn, Germany.  Dr. Milanova has extensive academic experience at various academic and research organizations worldwide.

Dr. Milanova is IEEE Senior Member, Fulbright U.S. Scholar, and NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute University, Ambassador. Dr. Milanova’s work is supported by NSF, NIH, DARPA, DoD, Homeland Security, NATO, Nokia Bell Lab, NJ, USA, and NOKIA, Finland. She has published more than 120 publications, over 53 journal papers, 35 book chapters, and numerous conference papers and has 2 patents.