Frederick Gifford
Profile
Born in London but raised in Tokyo, Fred has worked across the world in roles related to product innovation and corporate and business strategy, and he completed his MBA at ESADE in Barcelona in 2019. His work in AI has crossed city simulation, biopharmaceutical drug development, skyscraper energy management, and now gastronomy.
Publications
Literature-based Hypothesis Generation: Predicting the evolution of scientific literature to support scientists
AI4X, 2025 | Tarek R Besold, Uchenna Akujuobi, Samy Badreddine, Jihun Choi, Hatem ElShazly, Frederick Gifford, Kana Maruyama, Kae Nagano, Pablo Sanchez Martin, Thiviyan Thanapalasingam, Alessandra Toniato, Christoph Wehner
Science is advancing at an increasingly quick pace, as evidenced, for instance, by the exponential growth in the number of published research articles per year [1]. On the one hand, this poses anincreasingly pressing challenge: Effectively navigating this ever-growing body o...
Blog Posts
The Future Kitchen Series – Chef Hajime Yoneda Part 1
December 12, 2022 | Gastronomy, Erica Kato Marcus, Frederick Gifford
THE FUTURE KITCHEN SERIES Since 2020, we have been exploring the world of gastronomy and learning as much as we can from the industry’s leading ...
The Future Kitchen Series – Chef Hajime Yoneda Part 2
December 12, 2022 | Gastronomy, Erica Kato Marcus, Frederick Gifford
THE FUTURE KITCHEN SERIES Since 2020, we have been exploring the world of gastronomy and learning as much as we can from the industry’s leading ...
The Future Kitchen Series – Chef Hajime Yoneda Part 3
December 12, 2022 | Gastronomy, Erica Kato Marcus, Frederick Gifford
THE FUTURE KITCHEN SERIES Since 2020, we have been exploring the world of gastronomy and learning as much as we can from the industry’s leading ...
Meet the Team #3: Mireille, Fred and Thomas
January 25, 2022 | Life at Sony AI, Mireille El Gheche, Thomas van de Wiel, Frederick Gifford
Meet Mireille, Fred and Thomas, three team members passionate about machine learning, AI and robotics, and dedicated to our mission of unleashing ...
AI Assisted Recipe Creation – Concept Video
August 10, 2021 | Gastronomy, Erica Kato Marcus, Frederick Gifford
An integral part of our Gastronomy Flagship Project is imagining the future of AI-led recipe creation. We’ve developed our first concept video for a ...
Sony AI and Korea University
April 12, 2021 | Gastronomy, Donghyeon Park*, Frederick Gifford
Among the partnerships we’re setting up to drive our Gastronomy Flagship Project, we’re excited that our work with Korea University (KU) is already ...
Eight Things We Learned About the World’s Best Chefs
February 3, 2021 | Gastronomy, Erica Kato Marcus, Frederick Gifford
Our entry into the world of gastronomy was exciting and daunting in equal measure, and as we began to explore kitchen robots and ingredient pairing ...