Predrag Radivojac

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Predrag Radivojac
Education
Awards
Scientific career
Institutions Northeastern University
Thesis Classification and Knowledge Discovery in Protein Databases [1]  (2003)
Doctoral advisors
    • Zoran Obradovic
    • A Keith Dunker

Predrag Radivojac is a Serbian computational biologist and professor of computer science at Northeastern University. [2]

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Education

Radivojac gained a BSc in electrical engineering from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia in 1994 and an MSc in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade. Following a move to the USA, he gained his PhD in computer and information sciences from Temple University in 2003, under the direction of Zoran Obradovic and Keith Dunker. [3] [4]

Career and research

Radivojac joined Dunker's lab at Indiana University as a postdoc; he joined Northeastern University in 2018. [4] His research interests include machine learning, protein function prediction and analysis of post-translational modifications. [2]

Awards and honours

Radivojac received an NSF CAREER award in 2007. [4] He is president of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB); his term started in 2024 [5] and is due to end in 2027. [6] In 2025, Radivojac was named by the ISCB as an ISCB Fellow. [7]

References

  1. "Zoran Obradovic's Lab". Center for Data Analytics and Biomedical Informatics. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Predrag Radivojac". www.khoury.northeastern.edu. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
  3. "Predrag Radivojac, Ph.D. [CV]" (PDF). Retrieved 23 July 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 "Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology Seminar". www.cs.cmu.edu. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
  5. Posner, Milton (6 March 2023). "In clinics, classrooms, and conferences, Predrag Radivojac elevates computational genomics". Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
  6. "Officers and Directors". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
  7. "March 11, 2025: ISCB Announces the 2025 Class of Fellows". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 21 July 2025.