Researcher

Mile Šikić is a researcher in computational genomics and artificial intelligence (AI), currently serving as a Senior Principal Scientist at the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS) and a full Professor in Computer Science at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. He earned his PhD degree in computer science from the University of Zagreb in 2008 and has since been at the forefront of algorithms and AI-driven genomics, contributing to de novo genome assembly (Racon, Raven), nanopore sequencing error correction (HERRO) and RNA language models (RiNALMo).
Šikić leads a research team of over 15 scientists across Singapore and Croatia, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration. He is an active member of several international consortia, including Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T), Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC), and Cancer Genome in the Bottle. He has founded multiple companies and worked as a system integrator, consultant and project manager on over 70 industry projects spanning computer networks, mobile networks and cybersecurity. He has also contributed to complex and social network analysis, co-developing a novel election and market forecasting methodology that successfully predicted geopolitical events in 2016.