Vanja Paunić

Vanja Paunić is a Data Science Manager at Microsoft, where they lead a team of data scientists focused on machine learning workloads for the Healthcare and Life Sciences domain. With over 10 years of experience in data science, machine learning, and bioinformatics, Vanja has developed and applied data mining tools to tackle real-world challenges. They earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, where their research concentrated on population genetics and donor-patient matching for bone marrow transplantation. Prior roles include positions as a Lead Research Scientist at Vitagene and a Bioinformatics Scientist at the National Marrow Donor Program.