Victoria Kostina

Professor Victoria Kostina is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology and serves as the Graduate Option Representative for Electrical Engineering. Her research spans information theory, coding theory, communications, and control, with a particular focus on the nonasymptotic regime of information theory. Professor Kostina’s work leverages tools from probability theory, random processes, and concentration of measure to develop fundamental insights into modern communication systems operating under stringent delay and reliability constraints. Her research addresses feedback communication, streaming over noisy channels, sparse and variable-length coding, and the interplay between information theory and control. Through this perspective, her work contributes to the theoretical foundations of next-generation communication networks and real-time information systems.