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Invited Talk at MBZUAI Workshop
November 10, 2025
Prof. Natasa delivered an invited talk on "Predictive Patient Analytics and Precision Therapeutics from Multi-Omics Data" at the MBZUAI Workshop on Data, Learning and Biological Problems, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
AI Innovation Day at MBZUAI
November 13, 2025
Prof. Natasa delivered a talk at MBZUAI's AI Innovation Day during the Longevity session, discussing how AI is being used to understand aging, identify biomarkers for healthy lifespan, and personalize interventions.
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Invited Talk at MBZUAI AI Innovation Day CCAD
October 08, 2025
Prof. Natasa gave an invited talk on "Predictive Patient Analytics and Precision Therapeutics from Multi-Omics Data" at MBZUAI AI Innovation Day CCAD, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
New member
October 10, 2025
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Tarmo Nurmi to the lab as a Postdoctoral Associate!
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Invited Talk at CIBB 2025
September 10, 2025
Prof. Natasa delivered an invited talk on "AI for Mining Multi-Omic Data in Precision Medicine and Pharmacology" at the 20th conference on Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB), Milano, Italy.
New member
August 30, 2025
We are delighted to welcome PhD Student, Branislava Jankovic to the lab!
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Talk on Serbian National TV
August 09, 2025
Natasa was invited to speak on Serbian National TV about the future impact of AI on the workforce and which professions may be transformed by artificial intelligence.
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Invited Talk at BioNetworks Workshop
July 08, 2025
Prof. Natasa gave an invited talk on "AI for Embedding Multi-Omic Networks to Simplify Precision Medicine" at the BioNetworks - Modeling, Algorithms, and Statistics Workshop, COST action CA21169 (DYNALIFE), Cetinje, Montenegro.
Invited Talk at UAE Drug Discovery and Biotech Network
June 04, 2025
Prof. Natasa delivered an invited talk on "Explainable AI for Sustainable Exploitation of Multi-Omic Data in Precision Medicine and Pharmacology" at the UAE Drug Discovery and Biotech Network Inaugural Meeting, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
New preprint
June 08, 2025
We develop a new data integration method, named iTissue, based on Graph Non-negative Matrix Tri-Factorization that integrates spatial and single-cell transcriptomics with molecular interaction networks, producing low-dimensional space.
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Keynote Talk at NetBioMed Conference
June 02, 2025
Prof. Natasa delivered a keynote talk on "AI for Embedding Multi-Omic Networks to Simplify Precision Medicine" at the NetBioMed Satellite Conference of NetSci Conference, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
Invited Talk at SANU
May 28, 2025
Prof. Natasa gave an invited talk on "New AI Methods for Simplifying Multi-Omics Data Analyses in Precision Medicine" at the International Conference NONLINEARITY, NONLOCALITY and ULTRAMETRICITY, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU), Belgrade, Serbia.
Plenary Talk at ASTROAIMED
May 22, 2025
Prof. Natasa delivered a plenary talk on "New AI for Multi-Omics Data Fusion to Personalize Medicine" at ASTROAIMED Dubai Health, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai, UAE.
Invited Talk at Hellenic Bioinformatics Conference
May 17, 2025
Prof. Natasa gave an invited talk on "AI for Multi-Omics Data Fusion to Personalize Medicine" at the 2025 Hellenic Bioinformatics Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece.
BIZLife Interview
April 27, 2025
Prof. Natasa was interviewed by BIZLife Business News on the topic "What is the actual position of women in IT and technology industry."
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Invited Talk in China
April 19, 2025
Prof. Natasa delivered an invited talk on "AI for Multi-Omics Data Fusion to Personalize Medicine" at the 2025 China-West Asia-East Europe Bioinformatics Workshop, Zhejiang University, China.
New publication
April 04, 2025
Clustering individuals using INMTD - a novel versatile multi-view embedding framework integrating omics and imaging data.
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New member
March 20, 2025
We are delighted to welcome Aleksandr Matsun to the lab as a Research Engineer!
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RTS-1 Interview from Kopaonik Business Forum
March 05, 2025
Prof. Natasa gave a live interview for The Morning Program of Radio Television Serbia 1 (RTS-1) from Kopaonik Business Forum.
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Panel Discussion at Kopaonik Business Forum
March 03, 2025
Prof. Natasa served as a panelist at the panel discussion "The role of artificial intelligence in business (Uloga veštačke inteligencije u biznisu)" at Kopaonik Business Forum (KBF), Kopaonik, Serbia.
Euro News Serbia Interview
March 03, 2025
Prof. Natasa was interviewed by Euro News Serbia on the topic "Today's AI will not exist in 5 years."
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New publication
February 06, 2025
In this perspective paper, we survey the literature and argue for the development of a comprehensive, general framework for embedding of multi-scale molecular network data that would enable their explainable exploitation in precision medicine in linear time.
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New Lab, new Continent, and new beginnings
February 01, 2025
Excited to start the Integrative Computational Network Biology lab at the MBZUAI, Computational Biology department. Join us!
Panel Discussion at Arab Health 2025
January 28, 2025
Prof. Natasa served as a panelist at the panel discussion "Innovation through Translational Research" organized by The Department of Health Abu Dhabi, Arab Health 2025, Dubai, UAE.