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Ezgi Arslan, PhD.

Ezgi Arslan, PhD.

Industry Analyst
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Ezgi is an industry analyst at AIMultiple.

Research focus at AIMultiple

  • AI agent applications in finance where she combines her finance expertise with emerging AI tools.
  • Sustainability where she relies on her academic research background.
  • Procurement technologies where she bases upon her experience in finance.
  • Surveys and sentiment analysis for user insights where she rests on her academic experience.
  • Network security, including firewalls, firewall management, and orchestration where she applies her industry analysis experience.

Professional experience

Ezgi worked both in academia and the industry before:
  • Çankaya University as Part-time Teaching Staff
  • TED Ankara College as Education Support Specialist
  • TED University as Teaching Assistant
  • AKFEN Holding Inc. as Finance Specialist

Education

Graduated with a PhD. from the Department of Business and Administration at Bilkent University.

Academic publications

  • Arslan E. and Tanyeri-Günsür B. (2025). Ambitious sons and understanding daughters: investor perceptions of gender and the valuation of family firms". Gender in Management: An International Journal, 1-22, DOI: 10.1108/GM-11-2024-0636.
  • Alp, E. (2024). An Examination of Factors in Financial Asset Valuation. Nişantaşı Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 12 (Special Issue), 60-72. DOI: 52122/nisantasisbd.1467788.
  • Tanyeri A. B., and Alp E. (2023). Law as an external governance mechanism: valuation of family firms in countries with differing judicial protection of shareholder rights. Corporate Governance: An International Review, 1-22, DOI: 10.1111/corg.12484.

Conference presentations

Latest Articles from Ezgi

Cybersecurity
Open World Evaluation
Aug 10

Top 20+ Active Directory Management Tools

Although many systems have moved to the cloud, Active Directory (AD) remains the central identity platform for managing users, devices, and access across most organizations. We list the top 21 tools that support key areas of Active Directory management with their distinct capabilities: Full AD management (Administrative control): Provide direct control over AD objects (users,…

Enterprise Software
Insight
Aug 10

Top 20 RPA SAP Use Cases & Examples

SAP is one of the oldest and most valuable ERP systems. Though an ERP suite automates many areas, most SAP processes remain manual and repetitive, including accounting, transaction management, and reporting. This makes RPA a great candidate for automating SAP and redirecting resources to higher-value activities and processes. Explore top 20 RPA SAP use cases…

AI
Open World Evaluation
Aug 10

Top 10 Open Source Sentiment Analysis Tools

Sentiment analysis has gained worldwide momentum as one of the text analytics applications. Businesses that have not implemented sentiment analysis may feel an urge to find out the best tools and use cases for benefiting from this technology. Explore the top open source sentiment analysis tools and no-code solutions for businesses looking to pilot sentiment…

Cybersecurity
Open World Evaluation
Aug 10

Top Firewall Management Tools: Analysis & Comparison

As the CISO of an enterprise managing firewalls from multiple vendors, I have seen that a unified firewall management tool is essential to streamline configuration & ensure compliance, and reduce the complexity & workload. I have compiled the top 5 solutions. Click the links to understand the rationale behind each selection: See the top multi-vendor…

Agentic AI
Insight
Aug 10

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. We listed: These companies primarily focus on agentic AI research and development, offering initiatives like ethical AI guidelines and environments for…

Agentic AI
Insight
Aug 10

AI Agent Traps: 20 Real-Life Incidents

AI agent adoption has outpaced AI agent security: 82% of enterprises now deploy agents, but 44% have policies to secure them,39 and one in five organizations has already experienced an agent-related breach.50 We analyzed 20 real-world security incidents and found that behavioral control and systemic traps (not prompt injection) now drive the majority of critical…

Agentic AI
Benchmark
Aug 10

Agentic AI Finance Benchmark: FinRobot vs FinRL vs FinGPT

79% of executives report that their companies have started adopting AI agents, yet 34% are currently using them in accounting and finance.72 We conduct a benchmark on 3 agentic AI finance tools tailored for financial workflows. Results suggest that We present benchmark results alongside use cases and implementation challenges. The findings highlight several important patterns:…

Agentic AI
Open World Evaluation
Aug 10

Low/No-Code AI Agent Builders: n8n,make, Zapier

We spent three days configuring low- and no-code AI agent builders, AI-agent workflows, manually setting up LLM actions, document parsers, search tools, and building pipelines with triggers, conditional steps, tool calls, and webhooks to compare how each system handles multi-step agent automation. We used the free tiers of popular low/no-code AI agent builders, including Creatio…

Agentic AI
Open World Evaluation
Aug 10

Top 15 Accounting AI Agents

Tools like Dext, AutoEntry, and Hubdoc have automated data extraction and transaction posting. But these systems are fundamentally still rule-based, often requiring accountants to jump between spreadsheets. Thus, after reviewing the documentation and watching demos, we picked the top 15 AI-based accounting agents: The demos below show how accounting agents handle different tasks. In this…

AI
Insight
Aug 10

Test Automation Documentation with Best Practices 

Test automation is vital for ensuring the quality and reliability of applications in software testing and development. Businesses and QA teams are transitioning from manual testing to automation testing as it can: What often goes overlooked is the role of effective documentation in maximizing the benefits of test automation. We explore the importance of test…