Zekarias Kefato
Senior AI Scientist at AstraZeneca
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolZekarias Kefato is a Senior AI Scientist based in Cambridge with a decade of experience at the intersection of machine learning, NLP, and social network analysis. He brings deep research pedigree from a PhD and postdoctoral work at Università degli Studi di Trento and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, now applying that expertise to real-world problems at AstraZeneca. His strengths include network representation learning and translating complex graph- and language-based models into practical solutions for industry-scale challenges. Having moved from early software engineering and teaching roles into advanced research, he combines hands-on development experience with rigorous academic methods. Colleagues value his ability to bridge hypothesis-driven experimentation and production-focused AI deployment.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di TrentoBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering at Microlink Information Technology College
Amharic, English, Italian
Github Skills (2)
self-supervised-learning2
automated-machine-learning1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zekarias-tilahun/readinggroup
Aug 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes in 10 months
zekarias-tilahun/GAP
Dec 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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