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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

Agentic AI
Insight
Sep 1

Building AI Agents with Composable Patterns

We spent 3 days experimenting with workflows and agent pipelines in n8n, following Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s guides on building effective AI agents. Explore the core AI agent components, how to choose the right components and tools, in addition to building agent workflows based on Anthropic’s simple, composable patterns such as prompt chaining, routing, parallelization, orchestrator…

Cybersecurity
Open World Evaluation
Sep 1

Analysis of Top 4 Open Source NGFWs Based on Features

Teams using NGFWs, AI-driven security, and automation save ~$2M more than those using traditional tools. See open source NGFW as a cost-effective network security solution for comprehensive security: Table 1. Key features For details of key features of open source NGFW and their importance, check the ngfw features. Table 2. Market presence *Based on data…

Cybersecurity
Open World Evaluation
Sep 1

Compare 10 Open Source MFA Tools

We compared 10 free and open-source MFA tools across their authentication protocols, MFA methods, deployment options, and most recent releases. When starting your free and open source multi-factor authentication (MFA) implementation, consider: All tools (except LDAP) support hardware tokens (e.g., YubiKey) and the FIDO2 / WebAuthN passwordless authentication protocol. FIDO2 does not use shared secrets,…

Agentic AI
Benchmark
Aug 31

Computer Use Agents: Benchmark & Architecture

Computer-use agents operate real desktops and web apps. Their designs, limits, and trade-offs are often unclear. We break down how leading systems work, how they learn, and how their architectures differ. We also reference a focused UI-grounding benchmark on 100 desktop screenshots, across 4 task types and 5 runs per sample. It isolates the quality…

AI
Benchmark
Aug 27

Top 15 AI Excel Tools Benchmarked

79% of companies claim to have adopted AI agents, and two-thirds of those users say these agents have boosted productivity in measurable ways. We test and compare 15 AI Excel tools to see how they handle real spreadsheet work. We ran two benchmarks. Quadratic and GPT for Excel scored the highest. Summary of other results:…

Agentic AI
Insight
Aug 27

Building a No-Code AI Lead Generation Workflow

AI sales agents promise automated prospecting and outreach, but most are bundled as full sales engagement platforms costing significantly once onboarding, data enrichment, integrations, and premium support are added. After reviewing leading AI SDR and lead generation tools and building hands-on workflows, I found that many teams need something simpler, more flexible, and more cost-effective.…

Enterprise Software
Open World Evaluation
Aug 27

RPA for Mac: 12+ RPA tools That Can Run on Mac

Most RPA tools were built for Windows, since Windows runs the majority of enterprise desktops. Macs have gained ground. They now make up over 15% of desktop operating systems worldwide and more than 24% in the U.S. That shift pushed vendors to support macOS. See the following sections for more information: We have curated a…

Cybersecurity
Benchmark
Aug 27

WAF Solutions: Benchmark-Based Comparison

With two decades of industry experience and market data showing that nearly half of breaches begin with web applications, we manually tested three leading WAFs (Cloudflare, Imperva, Barracuda) against real attack traffic by creating a test site and targeting it with common web threats, broken access control, injection, and vulnerable and outdated components. See a…

Agentic AI
Open World Evaluation
Aug 27

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
Benchmark
Aug 27

Top Emotion AI Tools Tested

We tested 12 vision-capable large language models on 70 labeled face photographs, five times each, to assess how accurately they identify the emotion on a human face. The highest score is 67%, no two models in the test are statistically distinguishable, and the cohort reads anger at 22%. In addition, we explore ten leading emotion…

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