Ayça Atabey is a lawyer and a researcher. Her PhD research focuses on the role that the notion of ‘fairness’ plays in designing AI-driven and privacy-respecting technologies for vulnerable data subjects. Her work particularly involves the intersection between data protection, AI, and human rights issues.

She is a research assistant for the Digital Futures Commission at 5Rights Foundation, she worked as a lawyer in an international law firm and has been working as a researcher at the BILGI IT Law Institute.

Ayça also works as a consultant on data protection, human rights, and migration focusing on the gender aspect of AI-driven technologies in the Europe & Central Asia region at UN Women.