Dr. Kakashi Hatake

Associate Professor of Computer Science

kakashi@konoha.edu +44 7700 900123 linkedin.com/in/kakashi-hatake github.com/kakashihatake

Profile

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.

Skills

Research

Machine Learning, NLP, Deep Learning, Statistical Analysis

Technical

Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, R, LaTeX

Academic

Grant Writing, Curriculum Design, PhD Supervision, Peer Review

Experience

Associate Professor

University of Queensland — London, UK

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 — Manchester, UK

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 — Bristol, UK

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

PhD in Computer Science

University College London

2009 – 2013

Master of Computer Science

Imperial College London

2007 – 2008

Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours)

University of Edinburgh

2003 – 2006