Akif Dirican

CS + Math @ Rice | CS @ Oxford

Role
Machine Learning Engineer Intern at United Nations
Location
Houston, TX, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Akif Dirican

I am a senior at Rice University pursuing a double major in Computer science and…

Experience

  1. Machine Learning Engineer Intern

    United Nations

    Oct 2025 — Present · NY, US

    Developing ML and analytics-driven decisions for the Strategic Planning Unit by scoping datasets, train/validate statistical models (ARIMA, CNN, GBoosting), and translating outputs to briefs to inform executive security risk management- Building end-to-end data pipelines and lightweight MLOps, using ETL from UN/open-source datasets, feature engineering, cross-validation, experiment tracking, and model monitoring with Python, SQL, Flask, Streamlit/Dash, Pandas

Education

  • Robert College

    High School Diploma

    2018 — 2023

  • Rice University

    Bachelor of Science - BS

    2023 — 2027

  • University of Oxford

    Computer Science

    2025 — 2026

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