Natasha Devroye is a Belgian and Canadian[1] information theorist known for her research on the channel capacity of cognitive radio communications.
At McGill, she specialized in communications, with a bachelor's thesis supervised by Fabrice Labeau.
She went to Harvard University for graduate study in engineering, completing her Ph.D. in 2007 with the dissertation Information Theoretic Limits of Cognition and Cooperation in Wireless Networks supervised by Vahid Tarokh.
[5] After another year of postdoctoral research at Harvard, she joined the University of Illinois Chicago as an assistant professor in 2009.
[3][6] Her husband, Jakob Eriksson, is a computer scientist at the University of Illinois Chicago.