Milana Gataric

Milana Gataric is a highly skilled Staff Data Scientist at Illumina, with a track record of developing automated solutions for quality assessment and prediction of sequencing data. Notable achievements include designing sequence embeddings, patenting novel methods for image stitching and error prediction in spatial genomics, and leading data science projects from conception to deployment. Previously, Milana served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the European Bioinformatics Institute, focusing on Bayesian methods in spatial transcriptomics and applying machine learning to biological imaging. Milana's early career includes a significant contribution to high-dimensional learning and image recovery at the University of Cambridge, where a PhD in Applied Mathematics was also earned. The foundational education was completed at the University of Novi Sad, culminating in a Bachelor and Master of Science in Applied Mathematics.