Ayda Firouzi
MSc · Data Science · İstinye University

Data Scientist & Graduate Researcher in Istanbul, Türkiye — exploring PhD programs at the intersection of machine learning, software engineering and applied data analysis.

Master’s thesis on Software Test-Case Prioritisation using Data Analysis and Machine Learning Algorithms under Prof. Bahman Arasteh. Currently building full-stack ML systems — RAG with Qdrant + Ollama, dropout-prediction pipelines, and Vue.js tooling for software-testing research.

Publications

Experience

Projects

  • Student Dropout Prediction System İstinye University · Istanbul End-to-end ML classification pipeline over 840+ student records with multi-factor risk scoring. Built a RAG-based query layer over Qdrant + a locally deployed Ollama LLM, a FastAPI backend and a Streamlit dashboard — fully containerised with Docker.
  • Real Estate Market Data Analysis Marmara University · Istanbul Four-year price-index dataset across 81 Turkish cities & 900+ districts. Bypassed Cloudflare + custom rate limiting with Selenium + cookie sessions; designed a resumable, checkpointed pipeline with Turkish locale handling and multi-currency (TL/USD/EUR/GBP) export.
  • Feature Extraction Pipeline Tool İstinye University · Istanbul Full-stack Vue.js app that automates feature extraction from HTML coverage reports produced by metaheuristic test-data-generation algorithms. Extracted 19 structural / dynamic features per case across 1,158 instances and exported ML-ready CSVs.

Academic Roles

  • İstinye University — Research Assistant, “Software Test Case Generation” (Prof. Bahman Arasteh) · Sep 2024 – Jun 2025
  • İstinye University — Teaching Assistant, Large Language Models (Dr. Okan Yaşar) · Jan 2023 – May 2024
  • İstinye University — Teaching Assistant, Machine Learning Applications in Business (Dr. Peren Jerfi) · Feb 2023 – Jun 2024
  • University of Tabriz — Teaching Assistant, Advanced Programming (Dr. Pedram Salehpour) · Sep 2022 – Feb 2023
  • University of Tabriz — Teaching Assistant, Fundamentals of Computer Programming (Dr. Mohammad Alipour) · Sep 2021 – Feb 2022

Education

  • İstinye University — MSc, Data Science · GPA 3.38/4.0 · Oct 2023 – Sep 2025 · Istanbul
  • University of Tabriz — B.Sc., Computer Science · GPA 15.18/20 · Sep 2018 – Jul 2023 · Tabriz
  • Farzanegan High School (NODET) — Math & Physics Diploma · GPA 18.81/20 · 2015 – 2018 · Tabriz

Awards & Languages

Achievements

  • Konkur · Mathematics, 233rd rank Among ~160,000 participants in the Iranian university entrance exam · Jun 2018
  • Scientific League Olympiad · Mathematics Progressed to the 2nd stage · Oct 2015
  • Scientific League Olympiad · Biology Advanced to the 2nd stage · Sep 2016
  • SAMPAD Selective Entrance Exam Admission among students from three cities · May 2011

Languages

  • PersianNative
  • TurkishNative / Bilingual
  • AzerbaijaniNative / Bilingual
  • EnglishTOEFL · May 2026

Core Skills

PythonPyTorchPandasNumpy NLPGenetic AlgorithmsNeural Networks SeleniumBeautifulSoupSQLC# GitLinuxAWS · GCP · Azure QdrantRAG SystemsFastAPIVue.js DockerStreamlitTableauPower BI