Elif Bulut is a faculty member in the Department of Quantitative Methods at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ondokuz Mayıs University. She holds Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees in statistics. Her academic studies focus on quantitative decision methods, business statistics, applied econometrics, time series analysis, machine learning, and data analytics. In recent years, she has conducted interdisciplinary research on international trade, global supply chains, the iron and steel industry, sustainability, disaster economics, and raw material dependence. She has published articles in journals indexed in SCI-Expanded, ESCI, and TR Dizin. She has also published conference papers, books, and book chapters in the fields of statistics, regression analysis, financial failure, financial literacy, and data analytics.