Victoria Kostina joined Caltech as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in the fall of 2014.

Previously, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Sergio Verdú. She completed her PhD at  Princeton University  in September 2013. She spent the spring of 2015 as a Research Fellow at  Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing . She holds a Bachelor's degree from  Moscow institute of Physics and Technology , where she was affiliated with the  Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences , and a Master's degree from  University of Ottawa .

She received the 2013 Princeton Electrical Engineering Best Dissertation Award and the  2017 NSF CAREER award .

Her research interests lie in information theory, theory of random processes, coding, wireless communications, and control. She is particularly interested in  fundamental limits of delay-sensitive communications .