College of Science and Technology
Center for Data Analytics
and Biomedical Informatics

Zoran Obradovic's Lab

Lab Activities
Principal Investigator

Zoran Obradovic

PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR

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Current PhD Students

Abdulrahman Alharbi
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Abhudaya Shrivastava
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Daniel Saranovic
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Hussain Otudi
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Jovan Andjelkovic
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Shelly Gupta
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William Power
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Nouf Albarakati
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Rafaa S Aljurbua
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Current Visiting Scholars

Dassie Galapo
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Bachelor + Master
Seungmi Kim
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Visiting Scholar
Former Postdoctoral Associates and Visiting Scholars

Boris Delibasic
Associate Professor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade
Gregor Stiglic
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Maribor
Vladan Radosavljevic
Machine Learning Chapter Lead at Spotify
Mladen Nikolic
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade
Jelena Slivka
Teaching Associate, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad
Kosta Ristovski
Scientist, Hitachi Big Data Lab
Milos Jovanovic
Teaching Associate, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade
Victoria Weixia Gui
Associate Professor, E-business Department, Computer and Electronic Information College, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi, P.R.C.
Vladisav Jelisavcic
Research Assistant, Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Ana Kovacevic
Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade
Milan Vukicevic
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade
Milos Jordanski
Ph.D. student, Mathematics Department, University of Belgrade.
Milos Radovic
Postdoctoral Associate, University of Kragujevac, Serbia
Mohamed Ghalwash
Research Scientist, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Cambridge, MA
Tamiris Trevisan Negri
Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Eng., University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Tijana Vujicic
Ph.D. student, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade
Milan Basic
Faculty, Mathematics Department, University of Nis, Serbia
Branko Arsic
Ph.D. student, Ph.D. student, Mathematics Department, University of Kragujevac, Serbia
Fang Zhou
Assistant Professor, East China Normal University
Daniel Polimac
Ph.D. Student, Mathematics Department, University of Belgrade
Daniel Saranovic
Ph.D. Student, Mathematics Department, University of Belgrade
Graduated PhD Students

Ameen Abdel Hai
  • Dissertation: “Advanced Transfer Learning in Domains with Low-Quality Temporal Data and Scarce Labels,” Fall 2023.
  • First Ph.D. position: Machine Learning Scientist, Geico, Chevy Chase, MD.
Athanasia Polychronopoulou
  • Dissertation: “Exploring Multiplex Networks,” Fall 2023.
  • First Ph.D. position: Instructor, Temple University.
Mohammad Alqudah
  • Dissertation: “Learning from Multi-Modal Spatiotemporal Data: Machine Learning Approaches to Advance Resilience in Smart Grids,” Fall 2023.
  • First Ph.D. position: Senior Applied Machine Learning Scientist, Best Buy, Minneapolis, MN
Jumanah Alshehri
  • Dissertation: “Jointly Mining News and User-Generated Content: Machine Learning, Information and Social Network Perspective,” Spring 2023.
  • First Ph.D. position: Instructor, Temple University.
Marija Stanojevic
  • Dissertation: “Domain Adaptation Applications to Complex High-Dimensional Target Data,” Spring 2023
  • First Ph.D. position: Applied Machine Learning Researcher, Winterlight Labs, Toronto, Canada.
Nima Asadi
  • Dissertation: “Algorithms for Pattern Discovery in Evolutionary Networks with Applications in Brain Imaging Data,” Temple University, Fall 2022.
  • First Ph.D. position: Instructor, Univ. Maryland.
Branimir Ljubic
  • Dissertation: “Advanced Machine Learning Models in Prediction of Medical Conditions,”Temple University, Spring 2021.
  • First Ph.D. position: Senior Scientist Research Computing, Clinical informatics, Office of Advanced Research Computing, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Martin Pavlovski
  • Dissertation: “Learning from Structured Data: Scalability, Stability and Temporal Awareness,” Temple University, Spring 2021.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research.
Jesse Glass
  • Dissertation: “An Efficient Ranking and Classification Method for Linear Functions, Kernel Functions, Decision Trees, and Ensemble Methods,” Temple University, Spring 2020.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Scientist, IQVIA Inc.
Shoumik Roychoudhury
  • Dissertation: “Leveraging Temporal Subsequences for Time-Series Classification,” Temple University, Spring 2020.
  • First Ph.D. position: Senior Data Scientist, Kulicke & Soffa.
Chao Han
  • Dissertation: “On the Predictive Modeling of Attributed Graphs,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Summer 2019.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Scientist, Facebook.
Xi Hang Cao
  • Dissertation: “On Leveraging Representational Learning Techniques for Data Analytics in Biomedical,”Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Spring 2019.
  • First Ph.D. position: Lead Data Scientist, Automatic Data Processing (ADP), LLC.
Djordje Gligorijevic
  • Dissertation: “Predictive Uncertainty Quantification and Explainable Machine Learning in Healthcare,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Summer 2018.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research.
Ivan Stojkovic
  • Dissertation: “Functional Norm regularization for Margin-Based ranking on temporal Data,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Spring 2018.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research.
Jelena Gligorijevic
  • Dissertation: “Context-Aware Learning from Partial Observations,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Spring 2018.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research.
Debasish Das
  • Dissertation: “Bayesian Sparse Regression with Aplication to Data-driven Understanding of Climate,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Spring 2015.
  • First Ph.D. position: Data Scientist, Verizon Big Data Analytics.
George Matthew
  • Dissertation: “A Perturbative Decision Making Framework for Distributed Sensitive Data,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Spring 2014.
  • First Ph.D. position: Staff Scientist (Full), Lincoln Laboratories, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mohamed Ghalwash
  • Dissertation: “Interpretable Early Classification of Multivariate Time Series,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2013.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Associate, Center for Data Analytics and BioMedical Informatics, Temple University, Philadelphia.
Qiang Lou
  • Dissertation: “Learning from Incomplete High-dimensional Data,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2012.
  • First Ph.D. position: Applied Researcher, Microsoft
Vladimir Ouzienko
  • Dissertation: “Log Linear Models for Prediction and Analysis of Networks,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2012.
  • First Ph.D. position: Product Lead with Diio LLC – business intelligence provider for aviation industry.
Kosta Ristovski
  • Dissertation: “Knowledge discovery through probabilistic models,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2012.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Associate, Center for Data Analytics and BioMedical Informatics, Temple University, Philadelphia.
Ping Zhang
  • Dissertation: “Learning from Multiple Data Sources,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2012.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Associate, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights.
Vladan Radosavljevic
  • Dissertation: “Gaussian Conditional Random Fields for Regression in Remote Sensing,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2011.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Associate, Center for Data Analytics and BioMedical Informatics, Temple University, Philadelphia.
Uros Midic
  • Dissertation: “Genome-wide prediction of intrinsic disorder; sequence alignment of intrinsically disordered proteins,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2011.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Associate, Fels Institute for Cancer Research & Molecular Biology, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia
Qifang Xu
  • Dissertation: “Statistical Analysis of Biological Interactions of Homologous Proteins,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2008.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Associate, Fox Chase Cancer Institute, Philadelphia.
Michael Hongbo Xie
  • Dissertation: “Functional Characterization of Large Scale Biological Data,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Summer 2007.
  • First Ph.D. position: Bioinformatics Specialist, IDF Research Department of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Bo Han
  • Dissertation: “Knowledge Discovery by Fusion of Information,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Summer 2007.
  • First Ph.D. position.
Kang Peng
  • Dissertation: “Learning from Protein Structure Related Data,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Spring 2006.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Associate, School of Informatics, Indiana University.
Predrag Radivojac
  • Dissertation: “Classification and Knowledge Discovery in Protein Databases,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2003.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Associate, School of Medicine, Indiana University.
Dragoljub Pokrajac
  • Dissertation: “Knowledge Discovery in Spatial-Temporal Databases,” Computer and Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Summer 2002.
  • First Ph.D. position: Assistant Professor, Computer Science Dpt., Delaware State University.
Aleksandar Lazarevic
  • Dissertation: “Distributed Inductive Learning for Time/Space Data Analysis,” Computerand Information Science Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2001.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Associate, Army High Performance Computing Research Center, Computer Science Dpt., University of Minnesota.
Slobodan Vucetic
  • Dissertation: “On-line Systems for Non-stationary Data Analysis and Modeling, “, Electrical Engineering Ph.D., WSU, Summer 2001.
  • First Ph.D. position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for Information Sciences and technology and Computer and Information Sciences Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
Pedro Romero
  • Dissertation: “Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Protein Databases,” Computer Science Ph.D., WSU, Spring 1999.
    • First Ph.D. position: Research Scientist, Artificial Intelligence Laboratories, Stanford Research Institute International, Menlo Park, CA.
Radu Drossu
  • Dissertation: “Efficient Design of Neural Networks for Time Series Prediction,” Computer Science Ph.D., WSU, Summer 1997.
  • First Ph.D. position: Staff Scientist, Financial Engineering Group, HNC Software Inc., San Diego, CA.
Tim Chenoweth
  • Dissertation: “A Neural Network Based System for Predicting Future Returns for the S&P 500 Stock Index,” Interdisciplinary Ph.D., WSU, Summer 1996.
  • First Ph.D. position: Assistant Professor (tenure track), School of Accountancy, Arizona State University.
Srdjan Milenkovic
  • Dissertation: “Higher-Order Dynamic Learning Through Nondeterministic Global Optimization,” Electrical Eng. Ph.D., University of Nis, Yugoslavia, co-advised with Prof. Vanco Litovski from Univ. of Nis, Summer 1996.
  • First Ph.D. position: Research Scientist, Microelectronics Centre, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom
Justin Fletcher
  • Dissertation: “A Constructive Approach to Hybrid Architectures for Machine Learning,” Computer Science Ph.D., WSU, Summer 1994.
  • First Ph.D. position: Principal Engineer, Itron Corp., Spokane, WA.
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