She wrote a bachelor's thesis on Channel Capacity of a New Class of Modulation Codes, supervised by Bane Vasic.
She moved to the University of Michigan for her graduate studies, continuing to work with Vasic there on a 2001 master's thesis, Multidimensional Modulation Codes for Magnetic and Optical Recording.
[1] She completed her Ph.D. at Michigan in 2002, with a dissertation Combinatorial Problems in Analysis of Algorithms and Coding Theory supervised by Kevin Compton.
[1][2] After her completing her doctorate, Milenkovic joined the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder.
[3] Milenkovic's research includes using DNA to store and retrieve content such as Wikipedia articles and the Gettysburg Address.