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Nenad Miljkovic, PhD

Nenad Miljkovic, PhD

Principal Investigator / Advisor

Founder Professor, UIUC

Nenad Miljkovic is a Founder Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Affiliations & Leadership

Education

  • Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2013
  • M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2011
  • BASc in Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo, 2009

Selected publications

  1. Aura-Bench: An Open Evaluation Suite for Multi-Step AI Agent Tool Execution

    Bert T , Miller G , Ortega-Marquez J , Miljkovic N

    Open Source Software & Datasets · 2026

    Tulescu Bert Tulescu Bert Gillian Miller, BS Gillian Miller Jorge Ortega-Marquez, MS Jorge Ortega-Marquez Nenad Miljkovic, PhD Nenad Miljkovic
    Cited by 0 Mentee-led PI first/senior Collaboration Open access arXiv:2605.00331

  2. Benchmarking Agentic Tool Use and Reasoning in Repository-Level Code Comprehension

    Miller G , Bert T , Castro-Palacin A , Miljkovic N

    Aura Lab Technical Report · 2026

    Gillian Miller, BS Gillian Miller Tulescu Bert Tulescu Bert Alberto Castro-Palacin, MSc Alberto Castro-Palacin Nenad Miljkovic, PhD Nenad Miljkovic
    Cited by 0 Mentee-led PI first/senior Collaboration Open access arXiv:2602.00101

  3. Automated Regression Testing and Patch Generation with Multi-Agent Workflows: A Case Study

    Castro-Palacin A , Bert T , Ortega-Marquez J , Miljkovic N

    Aura Lab Technical Report Series · 2025

    Alberto Castro-Palacin, MSc Alberto Castro-Palacin Tulescu Bert Tulescu Bert Jorge Ortega-Marquez, MS Jorge Ortega-Marquez Nenad Miljkovic, PhD Nenad Miljkovic
    Cited by 0 Mentee-led PI first/senior Collaboration Open access

  4. Structured Retrieval and Factuality Verification for Scientific Domain Large Language Models

    Bert T , Ortega-Marquez J , Miljkovic N

    Aura Lab Preprints · 2025

    Tulescu Bert Tulescu Bert Jorge Ortega-Marquez, MS Jorge Ortega-Marquez Nenad Miljkovic, PhD Nenad Miljkovic
    Cited by 0 Mentee-led PI first/senior Collaboration Open access arXiv:2511.00204

  5. Transparency and Multi-Turn Reliability in Human–AI Software Development Workflows

    Tripathy S , Bert T , Miller G , Miljkovic N

    Aura Lab Working Paper · 2025

    Shreya Tripathy, BS Shreya Tripathy Tulescu Bert Tulescu Bert Gillian Miller, BS Gillian Miller Nenad Miljkovic, PhD Nenad Miljkovic
    Cited by 0 Mentee-led PI first/senior Collaboration Open access