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
Affective Computing: In-Depth Guide to Emotion AI in 2026
Affective computing systems automatically identify emotions. These tools are used in several business cases, such as marketing, customer service, and human resources, to increase customer satisfaction and ensure safety. For leading tools in emotion detection, read Emotion AI Tools Backed by Real-World Testing.
Top 12+ Successful Sustainability Case Studies in 2026
During my academic research on corporate sustainability efforts, I realize that environmental and social practices have a significant impact on the long-term success of businesses. Some businesses outperform others in this area, giving them a competitive advantage. See 13 sustainability case studies to incorporate sustainability strategies into corporate actions and 2026 sustainability trends: 1.
Comparison of Top 10 Firewall Audit Software in 2026
Firewall audit software helps validate compliance and manage firewall configurations bulkily. Explore a comparison of leading firewall audit tools based on two approaches: Top 10 firewall audit products Features of firewall audit software benchmark Values that are zero are not shown in the chart.
Agentic Payments & Commerce: Tools, Use Cases & Benefits
Agentic AI is moving from a concept to a critical piece of modern infrastructure. This transformation is massive: the Agentic AI industry is estimated to reach $155B by 2030.
Top +10 Data as a Service Companies in 2026
Data fuels generative AI and enterprise innovation. Data as a Service (DaaS) is a cloud computing model that provides data on demand to users, usually on a subscription basis. This streamlines data collection and management.
Top 10 AI-Generated Text Detector Comparison in 2026
We conducted a benchmark of the most commonly used 10 AI-generated text detector.
WAF Solutions: Benchmark-Based Comparison in 2026
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.
Top 14 AI Excel Tools Benchmarked in 2026
79% of companies claim to have already adopted AI agents, and two-thirds of those users say these agents have boosted productivity in measurable ways. We test and compare 14 AI Excel tools to see how they perform.
Top 5 ZTNA Open Source Components in 2026
ZTNA open-source tools offer a cost-effective way to authorize access at each layer, securing remote access to resources.
Top 10 Emotion AI Tools Tested in 2026
Large language models and emotion AI can detect feelings from voices, faces, and data, and generate video or audio from prompts. We evaluated the emotion detection capabilities of two emotion detection software tools and seven large language models using 70 face images.
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