Ekin Dağlı completed his undergraduate education at Bilkent University, Department of Economics in 2021. He completed his master's degree at TED University Applied Data Science program with thesis and Middle East Technical University Social Policy program without thesis in 2024. He wrote his master's thesis on ‘Comparison of machine learning methods in predicting female labour force participation rates’.

Ekin Dağlı's research interests include political election analyses, political economy and regional development studies.

Ekin Dağlı joined TEPAV as a Research Associate in September 2024.