Diego Patiño
Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDiego Patiño is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UT Arlington with 11 years of experience bridging geometric computer vision, 3D reconstruction, graph neural networks, and physics-informed machine learning. His research agenda blends theoretical geometry with practical ML, producing novel GNN controls for UAVs in turbulent winds and physically grounded deep methods for single-image and point-cloud 3D reconstruction. He has a strong track record of mentoring students, securing grants, and leading interdisciplinary projects—from acoustic localization of underwater targets to robotics competitions and clinical collaborations on ASD. Prior roles span top research labs (GRASP at UPenn), industry software engineering, and geospatial tool development, demonstrating fluency in both experimental research and production code. Diego’s background reflects a rare combination of applied software development (iOS, ArcGIS plugins) and advanced academic research, enabling reproducible systems that translate geometric insights into deployable AI. Based in Arlington, Texas, he holds a Ph.D. from Universidad Nacional de Colombia and consistently aligns physical priors with learning-based methods to tackle real-world 3D perception problems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Vision and Machine Learning, Ph.D. Computer Vision and Machine Learning at Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Spanish, English, Portuguese
Github Skills (50)
classify7
crazyflie6
mahjong6
centerline6
robotics6
pybullet5
php5
multi-agent5
python5
toolbox5
rendering4
multi-agent-reinforcement-learning4
machine-learning4
mujoco4
gymnasium4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dipaco/mole-classification
Nov 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:32 commits, 25 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
pythondeep-learningmachine-learningclassify-imagestensorflow
dipaco/symmetry-detection
Aug 2019 - Nov 2019
PointNet++: Deep Hierarchical Feature Learning on Point Sets in a Metric Space
Contributions:185 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
pytorchdeep-learningcomputer-visionhierarchicalfeature-learning
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