She earned her master's in 2006 from the University of Ottawa and her undergraduate degree in applied mathematics and physics in 2004 from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Victoria Kostina worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Sergio Verdú in Princeton University, where she completed her PhD and a postdoctoral position in electrical engineering. Her research interests lie in information theory, theory of random processes, coding, and wireless communications. She is particularly interested in fundamental limits of delay-sensitive communications.