Emrah Ahi

Dr. Emrah Ahi is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Özyeğin University's Faculty of Business Administration and a researcher at the Center for Financial Engineering. With over 15 years of experience in finance, he previously served as a fund manager at HSBC Global Asset Management.

• PhD in Finance (Özyeğin University, 2010-2016)
• MS in Computational Science and Engineering (Koç University, 2004-2007)
• BSc in Mathematics (Middle East Technical University, 2000-2004)

His research spans fixed income securities, derivatives, asset pricing, and machine learning, with cross-disciplinary contributions to peer-to-peer network protocols and distributed systems. Key themes include risk modeling, volatility analysis, and robust computational methods in finance, alongside technical innovations in gossip-based data dissemination.

Recent publications focus on volatility smile modeling in currency options, term structure estimation in emerging markets, and applying machine learning to credit risk analysis. Earlier work on buffer management in epidemic algorithms demonstrates methodological rigor in distributed computing.

He teaches courses in Applied Financial Economics, Derivatives, Fixed Income Markets, and Investments. His affiliations include Özyeğin University's Center for Financial Engineering and collaborations in computational finance research.