Ezgi Arslan, PhD.
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 ETanyeri-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
- Alp, E. (2023) Impact of the Corporate Sustainability Performance on Financial Performance and the Institutional Shift Amidst Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Türkiye. In: ICGS 2023 CGIR Junior Scholar Consortium and Paper Development Workshop – held in Madrid, Spain on October 20, 2023.
- Alp, E. (2023) The Effect of Corporate Sustainability Activities of Financial Performance. In: 1. Conference of Economics and Society – held in Ankara, Türkiye on December 6-7, 2023.
- Alp, E. (2022) Shareholder activism, and organizational form. In: 19TH EIASM Workshop on Corporate Governance – held in Strasbourg, France on November 8-9, 2022.
- Alp, E., and Tanyeri A. B. (2021). Gender perceptions of investors and the valuation of family firms. In: RENT 2021 Conference – XXXV Research in Entrepreneurship Conference – held in Turku, Finland on November (17) 18-19, 2021.
- Alp, E. (2020). Value of Shareholder Voting Rights and Family Firm Related Mechanisms. In: 3rd AEM and TIM PHD Programs-Joint Paper Development Online Workshop, Bergamo on May 25-26, 2020.
Latest Articles from Ezgi
AI VC Benchmark: 11 AI Agents on Venture Capital Tasks
Partnering with early stage VCs, we converted two analyst workflows into benchmarks with human-verified ground truth and scored 11 AI agents on them. See the tasks, results and the scoring method: Each of the 11 models ran each task once. Scores are out of 100. Kimi K3 produced no scorable deal-sourcing run and is recorded…
AI-Based Stock Trading: Which Gen AI Tool Is Better
LLM tools have been used in AI-based stock trading since their emergence.1 I tested 14 generative AI models for AI-based stock trading to evaluate their ability to forecast price changes of 132 stocks using the provided information. The results show that For further details on the benchmark, read the stock trading benchmark methodology section. The…
AI Agent Sprawl Signs & Checklist to Manage Sprawl
Nearly 80% of organizations have deployed agentic AI.5 Yet only 21% have a mature governance model for these systems. The gap shows up in practice as agent sprawl, a buildup of redundant, ungoverned, and conflicting AI agents across the business. 40% of agentic AI projects is estimated to fail by 2027 due to weak governance…
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…
Comparison of Top 10 Firewall Audit Software
Firewall audit software helps validate compliance and manage firewall configurations in bulk. Explore a comparison of leading firewall audit tools based on two approaches: Values that are zero are not shown in the chart. Average percentage of features offered by each tool across four categories: notifications, reports and analytics, policy management, and user-based authorization. For…
Top 15+ Data as a Service Companies
Data as a Service (DaaS) is a cloud model that delivers data on demand, usually on a subscription. It lets a business buy the datasets it needs without collecting and storing the data itself. See the top data as a service companies and data types they provide, the key features such as data analytics, and…
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO): Tips & Best Practices
With ~60% of Google searches resulting in zero clicks, users are becoming accustomed to receiving answers without visiting sources. 24 Answers engines like Perplexity.ai that provide answers rather than links, are growing in popularity. Explore the top answer engine optimization best practices, 6-key-components of AEO strategies, and AEO performance metrics: Real-life example: Rand Fishkin, the…
Sentiment Analysis Benchmark Testing: ChatGPT, Claude & Qwen
Achieving precise labeling of emotions and sentiments, as well as detecting irony, hatefulness, and offensiveness, remains a challenge, requiring further testing and refinement. We tested 10 large language models across five sentiment tasks: emotion, hatefulness, irony, offensiveness, and sentiment. We ranked them by average accuracy across all five. The results highlight clear distinctions between the…
Top AI Document Generator Tools
AI document generators promise to create documents, presentations, and even websites from a short prompt. We tested how well several popular tools can generate different types of outputs, including: We tested AI Doc Maker by asking it to create documents about AIMultiple without providing any company details. The results were not perfect but fair. It…
Pros & Cons of Top 7 RPA Alternatives to Consider
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a beneficial technology that can automate up to 70-80% of rules-based processes.43 However, ~40% of companies fail to reach their expectations of cost reduction after RPA implementation.44 This is because RPA is not the right fit for every process, and there are potential pitfalls of RPA implementation, such as costly…
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