Svetlana N. Yanushkevich is an electrical engineer focusing on biometrics. She has also applied machine learning to logic design and is known for her earlier research in reversible computing. Educated in the Soviet Union, Belarus, and Poland, she works in Canada as a professor in the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering at the University of Calgary, where she heads the Biometric Technologies Laboratory. She is also associate dean for research in Calgary's Schulich School of Engineering.