Dr. Kakashi Hatake

Associate Professor of Computer Science

kakashi@konoha.edu +57 310 456 7890 linkedin.com/in/kakashi-hatake github.com/kakashihatake
DOB: 15/03/1990 Nationality: Colombiano(a) Status: Soltero(a)
Español (Nativo)Inglés (B2 — Upper Intermediate)

Skills

Investigación
Machine Learning, NLP, Deep Learning, Statistical Analysis
Técnico
Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, R, LaTeX
Académico
Grant Writing, Curriculum Design, PhD Supervision, Peer Review

Languages

Español (Nativo)

Inglés (B2 — Upper Intermediate)

Summary

Associate Professor of Computer Science with 12+ years in academia, specialising in machine learning and natural language processing. Published 35+ peer-reviewed papers (h-index 22) and secured over $2.4M in competitive research funding. Passionate about bridging industry and academia through applied research and mentoring the next generation of researchers.

Experience

Associate Professor

University of Queensland — Bogotá, Colombia
Jan 2020 – Present
  • Lead the NLP & Applied ML research group (8 PhD students, 3 postdocs)
  • Secured $1.8M ARC Discovery Grant for explainable AI research programme
  • Published 12 papers in top-tier venues (NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP) since 2020
  • Redesigned postgraduate ML curriculum adopted by 3 partner universities
  • Supervised 6 PhD completions with 100% employment placement rate

Senior Lecturer

University of Melbourne — Medellín, Colombia
Mar 2016 – Dec 2019
  • Taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses (200+ students/semester)
  • Co-authored textbook 'Applied Machine Learning' adopted by 15+ institutions
  • Established industry partnership programme with 4 tech companies
  • Received Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (2018)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Stanford University — Cali, Colombia
Jun 2013 – Feb 2016
  • Conducted research in deep learning for biomedical text mining
  • Published 8 papers with 1,200+ citations
  • Collaborated with Stanford NLP Group on open-source toolkit development

Education

Doctorado en Ciencias de la Computación

Universidad de los Andes
2009 – 2013

Máster en Ciencias de la Computación

Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2007 – 2008

Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours)

Universidad EAFIT
2003 – 2006