Predrag Radivojac

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

Predrag Radivojac
Education	University of Novi Sad University of Belgrade Temple University
Awards	ISCB Fellow (2025)
Scientific career
Institutions	Northeastern University
Thesis	Classification and Knowledge Discovery in Protein Databases[1]  (2003)
Doctoral advisors	Zoran Obradovic A Keith Dunker

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]