Predrag Radivojac

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

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.

Career and research

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

Awards and honours

Radivojac received an National Science Foundation [CAREER Award|NSF CAREER] award in 2007. He is president of the International Society for Computational Biology ; his term started in 2024 and is due to end in 2027. In 2025, Radivojac was named by the ISCB as an ISCB Fellow.