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
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.
Top 14 AI Excel Tools Benchmarked
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 10 Emotion AI Tools Tested
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.
Sentiment Analysis Methods
One-third of customers say they will stop doing business with brands they love after just one bad experience. Thus, understanding how customers feel about products or services is crucial for business success. Companies use sentiment analysis to understand customer sentiment and improve their products and services accordingly.
40 IoT Applications & Use Cases
Worldwide annual revenue on IoT in 2033 is expected to be $934B. IoT enables a myriad of different business applications. Knowing those IoT examples and use cases can help businesses integrate IoT technologies into their future investment decisions.
AI Firewall vs NGFWs: Detailed Analysis in 2026
A threat hunt is estimated to take 194 days to identify an advanced persistent threat (APT), according to cyber security stats. To improve the threat detection and prevention process, businesses are increasingly relying on artificial intelligence-based security solutions, leading to the AI in the cybersecurity market being projected to reach approximately $45 billion by 2027.
Top 6 Online Survey Participant Recruitment Tools in 2026
Companies conduct online surveys to understand market trends and their target audience. However, finding the right survey participants can be challenging. Survey participant recruitment tools help businesses to find appropriate participants.
Top 15 Circular Economy Metrics to Assess Businesses
The concept of circular economy (CE) is quickly making its way into business literature since we are struggling with major environmental issues. Besides its environmental value, CE expects to bring 4.5 trillion dollars until 2030 due to effective allocation of resources.
Top 3 Open Source Firewall Audit Tools Compared
Open-source firewall audit tools enable IT teams to assess whether their firewalls are properly configured without incurring high costs. However, mid-market and enterprise companies may explore closed-source firewall audit software for more comprehensive solutions.
Sentiment Analysis Stock Market: Sources and Challenges
Making accurate predictions regarding stock prices is challenging as the stock prices move depending on factors like interest rates, corporate governance, investors’ risk aversion, market trends, and firm investments. However, understanding the market psychology with sentiment analysis stock market might give a clue about future stock price movements.
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