Curriculum Vitae
General
- Name: Furkan (he/him)
- Languages: Turkish (native) and English.
- Interests: Computational linguistics, linguistic variation, and phonology.
- ORCID: 0000-0002-8411-654X
- Email: furkan.akkurt@bogazici.edu.tr
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Education
- Master of Science in Computer Engineering, 2026
- Institution: Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Advisor: Susan Üsküdarlı
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, 2023
- Institution: Boğaziçi University
Work experience
- Teaching Assistant, 2023 – present
- Institution: Department of Computer Engineering, Boğaziçi University
- Courses:
- 2024–2025: Fundamentals of Software Engineering, Project Development in Software Engineering
- 2023: Introduction to Computing, Principles of Embedded Systems Design
- System Administrator, 2023
- Institution: TETAM, Boğaziçi University
- Internship on Automated UI Testing, 2022
- Company: Trailblu, Istanbul
- Internship on Machine Learning, 2022
- Company: Caretta Software, Istanbul
Volunteering
- BÜKOOP (Boğaziçi Mensupları Tüketim Kooperatifi, Boğaziçi Members Consumer Cooperative), 2024 – present
- Student Volunteer, 2023
- Conference: EACL 2023, Dubrovnik, Croatia
- Student Assistant, 2022
- Course: Introduction to Computing
- Institution: Department of Computer Engineering, Boğaziçi University
Projects
- Turkic UD unification, 2023 – present
- Unifying annotations of Turkic UD treebanks.
- github.com/ud-turkic
- TURNA, 2023 – 2024
- Training a Turkish encoder-decoder language model.
- UD treebank evaluation, 2022 – 2024
- Evaluating annotation quality of UD treebanks, especially 2 versions of the Turkish BOUN treebank.
- Turkish Language Processing Platform (TULAP), 2022 – 2023
- Development of a research output platform.
- Collaborative web tool for linguistic annotation (BoAT), 2022
- BSc Senior Project, advised by Susan Üsküdarlı.
Extracurricular Activities
- Like solving crosswords, problems, such as the ones on Project Euler, KenKen and similar puzzles.
- Regular contributor to certain Wikimedia projects and Genius.