Dr. Miskov-Zivanov is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the University of Pittsburgh, with secondary appointments in Bioengineering and Computational and Systems Biology. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Prior to her current position, she was a postdoctoral researcher in Computational Biology at the University of Pittsburgh, and in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Miskov-Zivanov’s research focuses on the development of methods and tools for information retrieval, knowledge representation, model recommendation, explaining and predicting system behavior. She is especially interested in methods that bridge the gap between knowledge-driven and data-driven approaches, and she has applied her work in the domains of systems biology, synthetic biology, and socio-political systems.