{"id":12258,"date":"2025-11-19T10:29:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/?page_id=12258"},"modified":"2025-12-02T10:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:40:11","slug":"uwaila-ekhator","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/about-us\/computingdirectory\/current-students-directory\/uwaila-ekhator\/","title":{"rendered":"Uwaila Ekhator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1662\" height=\"2216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/981\/2025\/11\/UwailaEkhator_BSU-Career-Fair-edited.jpg\" alt=\"Uwaila Ekhator, Computing PhD Student, Data Science emphasis.\" class=\"wp-image-12289\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-education\">Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Emphasis in Data Science<br>B. Eng. Information and Communication Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-biography\">Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Uwaila holds a Bachelor\u2019s of Engineering degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Covenant University. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Computing and her research interests include Social Media Mining, Computational Social Science, Climate Change Opinion Dynamics and Stance Detection on Social Media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:23px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\"><a href=\"mailto:uwailaekhator@u.boisestate.edu\">uwailaekhator@u.boisestate.edu<\/a> <br><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/hes\/people\/vicken-hillis\/\">Advisor: Dr. Vicken Hillis<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Emphasis in Data ScienceB. Eng. Information and Communication Engineering Biography Uwaila holds a Bachelor\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3544,"featured_media":0,"parent":12366,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12258","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12291,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12258\/revisions\/12291"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}