Sorin Drăghici is a Romanian-American computer scientist and a program director in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) of the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Previous positions include: Associate Dean for Entrepreneurship and Innovation of Wayne State University's College of Engineering, the Director of the Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Core at Karmanos Cancer Institute, and the Director of the James and Patricia Anderson Engineering Ventures Institute.

[1][2] Draghici was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2022, for contributions to the analysis of high-throughput genomics and proteomics data.

At NSF he is responsible for programs in AI and computational biology such as Accelerated Computing-Enabled Scientific Discovery, Molecular Foundations of Biotechnology, Safe Learning-Enabled Systems, Formal Methods in the Field, Global Centers, and others.

He is also a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine at Wayne State University.