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☀️ We have moved to Northeastern University ☀️ 

Download my curriculum vitae in pdf format (last updated on 12/26/2018). Google Scholar profile.

Recent Updates

• i. ☀️ (April 2019) Pedja gives a seminar at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
• ii. ☀️ (March 2019) Pedja gives an opening keynote at MCBIOS 2019.
• iii. ☀️ (March 2019) Ruiyu’s and Yuxiang’s article introducing and evaluating new distance metrics accepted in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. The paper is available here. A bit older version is on arXiv.  
• iv. ☀️ (March 2019) Santosh’s article, from Jim Reilly’s group, on identifying N-terminal processing sites in proteins accepted in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. The article is available here.
• v. ☀️ (March 2019) Vikas receives a K99 award. Congratulations!
• vi. ☀️ (February 2019) Pedja gives a talk at a CSAIL’s Computational Biology series at MIT.
• vii. ☀️ (February 2019) Shantanu’s paper on identifiability of skew normal mixtures published in Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. The paper available here. An older (and somewhat weaker) version still available on arXiv.
• viii. (January 2019) Vikas, Kym, and Pedja part of the Baboon Genome Analysis Consortium. The paper on the sequencing of six species of the Papio genus now appears in Science Advances. 
• ix. (January 2019) A CAFA collaboration reveals 11 new long-term memory genes in Drosophila melanogaster. Balint’s and Stephen’s paper from the Bosco group published in G3 and featured on the journal home page. The paper is available here.
• x. (January 2019) Rashika’s and Shantanu’s paper on correction of performance estimates in positive-unlabeled learning presented at PSB 2019. The paper is available here.
• xi. (December 2018) Wazim’s and Kym’s paper on sequencing a Serbian individual’s genome published in PLoS One. This work started as a class project in Matt Hahn’s population genomics class.
• xii. (November 2018) Kym defends Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations! Joining Rachel Karchin’s lab at Johns Hopkins.
• xiii. (October 2018) Pedja visiting New York and Mount Sinai for a machine learning seminar. 
• xiv. (October 2018) Our collaboration with Anna Kashina’s group on understanding protein arginylation and mammalian arginylome has been accepted in Scientific Reports.
• xv. (October 2018) Gregg’s paper, from Matt Hahn’s group, on estimation of mutation rates in primates appears in Current Biology.

Awards and Honors

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

Professional Activities

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

Associate Editor, PLoS Computational Biology, 2014-

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

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

• • Supervised and 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: April 5, 2019