{"id":23674,"date":"2021-05-28T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=23674"},"modified":"2026-07-28T21:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:37:33","slug":"afra-feyza-akyurek","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/afra-feyza-akyurek\/","title":{"rendered":"Afra Feyza Akyurek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PhD Student, Computer Science<\/p>\n<p><span>Feyza is a second-year Computer Science PhD student at Boston University, advised by\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/derrywijaya.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\"><span>Derry Wijaya<\/span><\/a><span>. Before that she received her MSc in Statistics and Data Science from Carnegie Mellon University. She holds bachelor degrees both in Industrial and Computer Engineering from Ko\u00e7 University, Istanbul. Her research interests include natural language processing, machine translation and multi-modal learning along with some applications to journalism. The overarching theme of her research is learning with less supervision and learning continually.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8550,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43230,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23674\/revisions\/43230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}