Emre Ayıklar is a research-focused finance professional with a decade of experience blending M&A execution, valuation, and audit rigor across roles at Hekim Capital Partners, Forvis Mazars Türkiye, and RatioNova. He has practical financial modeling expertise (DCF, comparables, precedents) and has supported live deals, capital raising, and investor relations while strengthening accounting and due diligence skills through audit engagements. Equally comfortable with quantitative research and client-facing deal materials, he produces actionable insights and polished investment memoranda. Unusually for a junior analyst, he also contributed GPU-accelerated linear algebra and CNN utilities to an academic deep-learning framework on GitHub, demonstrating strong technical fluency alongside finance acumen. Seeking analyst roles in investment banking, private equity, or strategy consulting, he brings a mix of analytical depth, technical curiosity, and leadership experience from student governance.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, GPA 3.53 Turkish-Mathematics, High School Diploma, GPA 3.53 Turkish-Mathematics at Kırklareli Atatürk Anatolian High School
Bachelor's degree, Business Administration, Bachelor's degree, Business Administration at University of Applied Sciences Worms
Bachelor's degree, Business Administration (%100 English), Bachelor's degree, Business Administration (%100 English) at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi
Contributions:20 commits, 12 PRs, 7 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Emre made significant contributions to the Knet.jl deep learning framework, primarily focusing on GPU acceleration and linear algebra operations. Their work included implementing CUDA kernels for matrix transpose, 3D, 4D, and 5D permutedims operations, and integrating CUBLAS for optimized matrix transposing. Furthermore, the user implemented new distributions, gaussian, xavier, and bilinear for filter initialization. They also added deconv4 and unpool functions, enhancing the framework's capabilities for convolutional neural networks.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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