Predrag Radivojac

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Download my curriculum vitae in pdf format (last updated on 12/27/2021). Google Scholar profile.

Interested in working with us? We have broad research interests. Please check our selected three publications in the areas of 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. Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at the Technical University of Munich.

Recent Updates

• i. ☀️ (May 2022) CAGI flagship preprint posted on arXiv.
• ii. ☀️ (April 2022) Rashika’s work that surveyed experimentalists, biocurators, and computational biologists about protein function prediction is posted on bioRxiv.
• iii. ☀️ (March 2022) Our new preprint on the recommendations for the use of computational models in the clinic is now posted on bioRxiv.
• iv. ☀️ (March 2022) Two new preprints posted on medRxiv describing (1) a GWAS study about adverse pregnancy outcomes and (2) interaction between genetic predisposition and physical activity in gestational diabetes.
• v. (December 2021) The submission season for CAGI6 is closing on December 31, 2021.  
• vi. (September 2021) Yuxiang’s paper on prioritizing de novo autism risk variants published in Human Genetics. 
• vii. (September 2021) NIH announces the IGVF Consortium. We are a part of it!
• viii. (September 2021) Vikas started as an Assistant Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Congratulations!
• ix. (September 2021) Jose started as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras. Congratulations!
• x. (August 2021) Pedja giving an invited talk at BioKDD 2021. 
• xi. (July 2021) Pedja participates in panels at Function COSI and VarI COSI at ISMB/ECCB 2021. 
• xii. (July 2021) Abigail Thomas joins us as an MIT Research Science Institute scholar.
• xiii. (June 2021) Pedja gives an invited talk at Belgrade Bioinformatics Conference 2021. A great group of speakers!
• xiv. (May 2021) Jose’s hypergraphlet kernel paper appears in Bioinformatics. 
• xv. (March 2021) An article about me in Northeastern news!
• xvi. (February 2021) Richard’s paper, from Matt Hahn’s group, on estimating sequencing error rates published in Genetics. Distinct error rates observed on reference vs. non-reference genotypes.
• xvii. (February 2021) We are editing a special issue in Human Genetics, entitled Computational Interpretation of Human Genetic Variation. Contact us about possible submissions! 
• xviii. (January 2021) Hoyin in the Northeastern news!
• xix. (December 2020) Pedja to participate in the workshop on Establishing the Reliability of Algorithms in Biomedical Research at PSB 2021. 
• xx. (November 2020) Vikas’ MutPred2 paper published in Nature Communications. Collaboration with the Mooney, Cooper, Iakoucheva, and Sebat labs.
• xxi. (September 2020) Our lab alumna, Haleigh Eppler, now in the Jewell lab at the University of Maryland, receives an F31 award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Congratulations!
• xxii. (August 2020) Hoyin becomes a Civic Digital Fellow. Will spend 10 weeks at the Office of Data Science and Emerging Technologies, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Congratulations!

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 

Major Student Awards

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

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

Professional Activities

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

• • 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: May 12, 2022