She obtained her M.S.E. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Slovak Technical University and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Pennsylvania in 1996. In 1996 - 1999 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the EECS Department at University of California, Berkeley. She is the recipient of David Marr's prize (with Y. Ma, S. Soatto and S. Sastry) and received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Jana is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics and a Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Computer Vision. Her general research interests are in Robotics and Computer Vision. In particular she is interested 'seeing' systems engaged in autonomous tasks, acquisition of static and dynamic models of environments by means of visual sensing and human-computer interaction.