Zoran Obradovic

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Professor and Director
Center for Information Science and Technology
Temple University

PROFILE:

Zoran Obradovic is Director at the Center for Information Science and Technology and a Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at Temple University. His research interests focus on developing data mining and statistical learning technology for knowledge discovery at large databases. Funded by NSF, NIH, NIJ, DOE and industry he contributed to about 190 refereed articles on these and related topics and to several academic and commercial software systems. He is an editorial board member at Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, the International Journal of Parallel, Emerging and Distributed Systems and the Multiple Valued Logic. He organized journal special issues, conferences, workshops and also served on editorial boards at other journals.

RECOGNITION:

Team leader for the best rated model of intrinsically disordered protein regions at the seventh critical assessments of structure prediction experiments (CASP 7), Nov. 26-30, 2006.

Team leader for the best predictor in protein disorder category at fifth and the sixth critical assessments of structure prediction experiments (CASP 5 and CASP 6), 2002 and 2004.

RESEARCH GRANTS IN PAST SIX YEARS:

Obradovic, Z., Vucetic, S. and Z. Li (Aug. 2006 - July 2009) "Collaborative Research: Data Mining Support for Retrieval and Analysis of Geophysical Parameters," National Science Foundation, $600,404 ($400,207 to Temple University).
Harris A., Obradovic, Z., Izenman, A., Mennis, J. (Sept. 2006 - Sept. 2008) "Investigating the Simultaneous Effects of Individual, Program and Neighborhood Attributes on Juvenile Recidivism Using GIS and Spatial Data Mining," National Institute of Justice, $316,714.
Harris A., Obradovic, Z., Izenman, A., Mennis, J. (July 2006 - Dec. 2006) "Investigating the Simultaneous Effects of Individual, Program and Neighborhood Attributes on Juvenile Recidivism Using GIS and Spatial Data Mining," Institute of Public Affairs, Temple University, $16,320.
Soprano, D.R., Soprano, K.J., Obradovic, Z. and Vucetic, S. (April 2005 - December 2009) "PBX and Retinoic Acid-Dependent Differentiation," National Institute of Health, NIH- 1 R01 DK070650-01, $1,586,250.
Megalooikonomou, V., Obradovic, Z., Boyko, O.B., Gee, J. (January 2004 - December 2007) "Large Scale Data Analysis for Brain Images," National Institute of Health, Grant NGA: 1 R01 MHO68066-01A1, $1,284,246.
Dunker, A.K., and Obradovic, Z. (September 2003 - September 2007) "Bioinformatics Linkage of Protein Disorder and Function," National Institute of Health, Grant R01 LM007688-01A1, $1,291,356.
Obradovic, Z. and Vucetic, S., (August 2002 - August 2005) "ITR/Small/Scientific Frontiers: Task-Specific Data Reduction and Mining in Spatial-Temporal Domains," National Science Foundation, Grant 0219736, $210,120.
Obradovic, Z. and Vucetic, S., (June 2004 - August 2004) "REU Supplement for ITR: Task-Specific Data Reduction and Mining for Spatial-Temporal Domains," National Science Foundation, $12,000.
Kwatny, E., Stafford, R., Megalooikonomou, V. and Obradovic, Z., (September 2001 - September 2004) High Performance Network Connection for Knowledge Discovery Research," National Science Foundation, Grant NSF-ANIR-0124390, $353,100 ($ 150,000 from NSF).
Obradovic, Z. and Vucetic, S. (June 2004 - June 2006) "Applications of Bioinformatics Data Analysis to Cardiovascular and Cancer Research," The Pennsylvania Department of Health, $250,000 (direct costs).
Obradovic, Z. and Vucetic, S. (January 2004 - June 2004) "Research Infrastructure and Expertise for Gene Expression Data Analysis," The Pennsylvania Department of Health, $70,000 (direct costs).
Obradovic, Z., Chang, F.N., Tuszynski, G. P. and Vucetic, S. (January 2004 - June 2004) "Mining High Performance Liquid Electrophoresis Data," Temple University, $8,000 (direct costs).
Wolfgang, P., Obradovic, Z., Megalooikonomou, V. and Vucetic, S., (June 2003 - December 2003) "Visualization and Analysis of Commercial Flight Data," Lockheed Martin Corp., $49,000.
Obradovic, Z. (January 2003 - August 2004) "An Efficient System for Discovering Patterns and Associations at Earth Observation Databases," New Previously Unfunded Directions for Established Investigators Grant Application, Temple University, $30,000.
Obradovic, Z. (March 2001 - September 2001) "Data Reduction for Spatial-Temporal Knowledge Discovery," Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, LDRD Program under DOE contract DE-AC07-99ID13727, $50,000.
Dunker, A.K and Obradovic, Z., (May 2000 - May 2003) "Bioinformatics, Disordered Proteins and Function," The National Institute of Health, Grant 1 R01 LM06916-01, Biotechnology, $984,026.
Obradovic, Z. and Tomsovic, K., (August 2000 - August 2004) "Towards an Understanding of Deregulated Electricity Markets through Time Series Analysis," Power Systems and Intelligent Systems Programs, Division of Engineering, National Science Foundation, Grant ECS-9988626, $240,000.
Obradovic, Z. and Dunker, A.K., (June 1998 - December 2001) "Intelligent Data Analysis for Identifying Protein Disorder," cross-disciplinary funding by KDI Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence Initiative, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems and Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, National Science Foundation, Grant IIS-9711532, $379,910.
Obradovic, Z. and Dunker, A.K., (January 2000 - May 2001) "Supplement to Intelligent Data Analysis for Identifying Protein Disorder," Knowledge and Cognitive Systems Program, National Science Foundation, $50,858.

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