Cem Dilmegani
Cem's work at AIMultiple has been cited by leading global publications including Business Insider, Forbes, Morning Brew, Washington Post, global firms like HPE, NGOs like World Economic Forum and supranational organizations like European Commission. [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
Professional experience & achievements
Throughout his career, Cem served as a tech consultant, tech buyer and tech entrepreneur. He advised enterprises on their technology decisions at McKinsey & Company and Altman Solon for more than a decade. He also published a McKinsey report on digitalization.He led technology strategy and procurement of a telco while reporting to the CEO. He has also led commercial growth of deep tech company Hypatos that reached a 7 digit annual recurring revenue and a 9 digit valuation from 0 within 2 years. Cem's work in Hypatos was covered by leading technology publications like TechCrunch and Business Insider. [6], [7]
Research interests
Cem's work focuses on how enterprises can leverage new technologies in AI, agentic AI, cybersecurity (including network security, application security) and data including web data.Cem's hands-on enterprise software experience contributes to his work. Other AIMultiple industry analysts and the tech team support Cem in designing, running and evaluating benchmarks.
Education
He graduated as a computer engineer from Bogazici University in 2007. During his engineering degree, he studied machine learning at a time when it was commonly called "data mining" and most neural networks had a few hidden layers.He holds an MBA degree from Columbia Business School in 2012.
Cem is fluent in English and Turkish. He is at an advanced level in German and beginner level in French.
External publications
- Cem Dilmegani, Post-AI Banking: Millions of jobs at risk as banks automate their core functions. International Banker.
- Cem Dilmegani, Bengi Korkmaz, and Martin Lundqvist (December 1, 2014).Public-sector digitization: The trillion-dollar challenge, McKinsey & Company.
Media, conference & other event presentations
- Answers to Korea24's questions on job loss due to AI, Korea24
- Real Estate and Technology, presented by Hofstra University’s Wilbur F. Breslin Center for Real Estate Studies and the Frank G. Zarb School of Business in 2023 and 2024.
- Radar AI session (June 22, 2023): "Increasing Data Science Impact with ChatGPT".
- Generative AI Atlanta meetup: Generative AI for Enterprise Technology.
Sources
- Why Microsoft, IBM, and Google Are Ramping up Efforts on AI Ethics, Business Insider.
- Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI to pursue artificial intelligence that’s smarter than we are, Washington Post.
- Empowering AI Leadership: AI C-Suite Toolkit, World Economic Forum.
- Science, Research and Innovation Performance of the EU, European Commission.
- EU’s €200 billion AI investment pushes cash into data centers, but chip market remains a challenge, IT Brew.
- Hypatos gets $11.8M for a deep learning approach to document processing, TechCrunch.
- We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck AI startup Hypatos used to raise $11 million, Business Insider.
Latest Articles from Cem
Moltbook: Agent Driven Social Media [2026]
The rapid growth of OpenClaw has triggered an unusual social experiment: Moltbook, a Reddit-like social platform where agents interact with each other. Launched on the 28th of January, 2026, and started to get attention in a short time span. It reached 1.5m+ agents in its first week.
Large Language Models in Cybersecurity in 2026
We evaluated 7 large language models across 9 cybersecurity domains using SecBench, a large-scale and multi-format benchmark for security tasks. We tested each model on 44,823 multiple-choice questions (MCQs) and 3,087 short-answer questions (SAQs), covering areas such as data security, identity & access management, network security, vulnerability management, and cloud security.
AI Gateways for OpenAI: OpenRouter Alternatives
We benchmarked OpenRouter, SambaNova, TogetherAI, Groq, and AI/ML API across three indicators (first-token latency, total latency, and output-token count), with 300 tests using short prompts (approx. 18 tokens) and long prompts (approx. 203 tokens) for total latency.
Synthetic Data Generation Benchmark
We benchmarked 7 publicly available synthetic data generators sourced from 4 distinct providers, utilizing a holdout dataset comprising 70,000 samples, with 4 numerical and 7 categorical features, to evaluate their performance in replicating real-world data characteristics. Below, you can see the benchmark results where we statistically compare the synthetic data generators.
State of OCR technology in 2026: Is it dead or a solved problem?
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is one of the earliest areas of artificial intelligence research. Today, OCR is a relatively mature technology, and it is no longer called AI, which is a good example of Pulitzer Prize winner Douglas Hofstadter’s quote: AI is whatever hasn’t been done yet.
UiPath Pricing: RPA Pricing Models Explained
UiPath is one of the most popular RPA vendors, but RPA pricing structure can be complex. We examined different price combinations to help business and tech leaders understand UiPath’s pricing and get a high ROI RPA solution from their UiPath partnership.
Best RAG Tools, Frameworks, and Libraries
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) improves LLM responses by adding external data sources. We benchmarked different embedding models and separately tested various chunk sizes to determine what combinations work best for RAG systems. Explore top RAG frameworks and tools, learn what RAG is, how it works, its benefits, and its role in today’s LLM landscape.
Top 7+ Open Source Firewall Options: Features & Types
Network security statistics reveal that Open source firewalls provide a cost effective solution to network security.
Top 30+ Agentic AI Companies
Though AI agents are being hyped and some companies rebrand their chatbots as agentic tools, there are still a few agents in production. Previously, we benchmarked several capable AI agents over several real-world tasks.
15+ Best Open Source Web Crawlers for LLM & AI
Recent advancements in Generative AI are moving modern crawlers beyond raw HTML. Agentic web crawlers now use natural-language prompts to select links, rather than relying on fixed rules. These tools produce token-efficient markdown, making them essential for high-performance RAG pipelines.
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