Mirka Miller (née Koutova, 9 May 1949 – 2 January 2016) was a Czech-Australian mathematician and computer scientist interested in graph theory and data security.
[2] Miller earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Sydney in 1976,[3] both in mathematics and computer science,[2] and as a student also played volleyball for the New South Wales team and then the Australia women's national volleyball team.
[10] She wrote over 200 research publications,[2] including a widely cited survey of the degree diameter problem,[1] supervised 20 doctoral students before her death, was the supervisor of six more at the time of her death, and helped found four workshop series on algorithms, graph theory, and networks.
She was also influential in the history of graph theory in Indonesia, where she visited twice and supervised six doctoral students.
[2] An infinite family of vertex-transitive graphs with diameter two and a large number of vertices relative to their degree and diameter, the McKay–Miller–Širáň graphs, are named after Miller and her co-authors Brendan McKay and Jozef Širáň, who first constructed them in 1998.