Education:

Ph.D. in Computer Science, The Pennsylvania State University, 1991.

Research / Professional Interests :

Bioinformatics; Data Mining; Machine Learning; Spatial and Temporal Data Management.

Selected Publications:

1. Romero, P., Zaidi, S., Fang,Y.Y., Uversky, V.N., Radivojac, P., Oldfield, C., Cortese M., LeGall, T., Obradovic, Z. and Dunker, A.K. (2006)"Alternative Splicing in Concert with Protein Intrinsic Disorder Enables Increased Functional Diversity in Multicellular Organisms," The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(22):8390-8395,May 30. 
2. Han, B., Obradovic, Z., Hu, Z.Z., Wu, C. H. and Vucetic, S. (2006) "Substring Selection for Biomedical Document Classification," Bioinformatics, 22(17):2136-2142.
3. Peng, K., Radivojac, P., Vucetic, S., Dunker, A.K. and Obradovic, Z. (2006) "Length-Dependent Prediction of Intrinsic Protein Disorder," BMC Bioinformatics, 7(1):208,April 17.
4. Han, B., Vucetic, S., Braverman, A. and Obradovic, Z. (2006) "A Statistical Complement to Deterministic Algorithms for Retrieving Aerosol Optical Thickness from Radiance Data," Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 19 (7):787-795.
5. Obradovic, Z., Peng, K., Vucetic, S., Radivojac, P., and Dunker, A.K. (2005) "Exploiting Heterogeneous Sequence Properties Improves Prediction of Protein Disorder," Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics, 61(Suppl.7): 176-182.

Teaching Topics / Interests:

Data Mining; Bioinformatics; Machine Learning; Databases; Data Warehousing; Algorithms; Time Series Analysis, Geographical Information Systems, Pattern Recognition; Neural Networks; Intelligent Data Analysis; Artificial Intelligence; Parallel and Distributed Computing; Automata Theory.