Predrag Radivojac

Download my curriculum vitae in pdf format (last updated on 06/20/2025). Google Scholar profile.

Interested in working with us? We have broad research interests. Please check our selected three publications in the areas of learning from biased data, semi-supervised learning, evaluation of machine learning algorithms, general machine learning, graphs and hypergraphs, genome interpretation, protein function, mass-spectrometry proteomics, and post-translational modifications. Also see our review papers.

Courtesy appointments. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology; Barnett Institute Fellow; Affiliate Faculty of the Roux Institute; Core Faculty Member of the Institute for Experiential AI. 

Recent Updates

• ☀️ (July 2025) Sabbatical. I will be at the Broad Institute. Stepped down as Associate Dean of Research.
• ☀️ (May 2025) Clara’s and Shantanu’s paper on estimating fairness metrics in the presence of statistically biased labeled data accepted to research track of KDD 2025. 
• ☀️ (May 2025) Dan’s paper on calibrating high-throughput functional assays now available on bioRxiv.
• (April 2025) I am excited to visit South Korea to present a keynote at AIxBio, a talk at Hanyang University and a distinguished talk at Seoul National University. I will be providing opening remarks at RECOMB 2025.
• (March 2025) I was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology, class of 2025. 
• (January 2025) I gave two talks at PSB 2025. The workshop talk was about evaluation of generative AI and the session invited talk was about the state of variant interpretation. Thanks to the organizers for inviting me!
• (November 2024) Dan defends his Ph.D. thesis! Congratulations Dr. Zeiberg!
• (October 2024) Shawn to go to Google. Congratulations! 
• (September 2024) The IGVF Consortium’s marker paper published in Nature. 

Awards and Honors

Fellow, International Society for Computational Biology, 2025

Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at the Technical University of Munich, 2017

August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professor at Technical University of Munich, 2016

Senior Member, International Society for Computational Biology, 2015

National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2007

Outstanding Young Researcher, University of Novi Sad, 1998 

Major Student Awards

Haneen Abderrazzaq, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2023

Kymberleigh Pagel, Ian Lawson Van Toch Memorial Award, ISMB/ECCB 2017

Wyatt Clark, Ian Lawson Van Toch Memorial Award, ISMB/ECCB 2013

Professional Activities

President, International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), 2024-

Board of Directors Member, International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), 2012-2021

Associate Editor, PLoS Computational Biology, 2014-2021

Editorial Board Member, Bioinformatics, Oxford University Press, 2010-

Editorial Board Member, Human Genetics, Springer, 2020-

Research Interests

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

• Protein structure and function; method development and evaluation of function prediction
• Post-translational modifications (PTMs)
• Mass spectrometry (MS) and MS/MS proteomics

Biomedical Informatics

• Understanding and predicting molecular mechanisms of disease
• Genome interpretation
• Precision medicine and precision health

Machine Learning

• Semi-supervised learning, learning from positive and unlabeled data, learning from biased data
• Structured-output learning and evaluation, extreme classification
• Kernel-based inference on sequences, time-series, and graphs

 Last updated: July 1, 2025