Zoran Obradovic is an Academician at the Academia Europaea (the Academy of Europe) and a Foreign Academician at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is a L.H. Carnell Professor of Data Analytics at Temple University, Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences with a secondary appointment in Statistics, and is the Director of the Center for Data Analytics and Biomedical Informatics. He is the executive editor at the journal on Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, which is the official publication of the American Statistical Association and is an editorial board member at eleven journals. He is the program co-chair for the IEEE Big Data 2017 conference and was co-chair for 2013 and 2014 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining and was the program or track chair at many data mining and biomedical informatics conferences. He also served as the chair at the SIAM Activity Group on Data Mining and Analytics for 2014 and 2015 years, He has published more than 350 articles and is cited more than 19,500 times (H-index 52).

The primary objective of his research is to solve challenging Bioinformatics, Geoinformation Science and Computational Finance problems by developing and integrating distributed and parallel data mining and statistical learning technology for an efficient knowledge discovery at large sequence, spatial, temporal and spatial-temporal databases.