Previously she was a research assistant professor at TTI-Chicago, a philanthropically endowed academic institute located in the campus of the University of Chicago. Sanja completed her Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Ljubljana in 2010, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto during 2011-2012. In 2010, she visited UC Berkeley. She has served as a program chair of the 3DV conference, and as an area chair of CVPR'16, EMNLP'16, ACCV'16, CVPR'17, ICLR'17, and EMNLP'17. Together with Rich Zemel and Raquel Urtasun, she received the NVIDIA Pioneer of AI award. She has served in program committees of numerous international conferences, and has received three outstanding reviewer awards (ECCV 2008, CVPR 2012, ECCV 2012). Her main research interests are object detection, 3D scene understanding, and the intersection of language and vision.