Tarek Besold
Profile
Tarek’s expertise lies at the intersection between Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science where he is interested in a broad range of topics ranging from computational creativity to trustworthy AI. Before joining Sony AI, Tarek worked across different industries and in academia, among others as Head of Strategic AI at DEKRA DIGITAL (the digital innovation unit of the testing and certification multinational DEKRA), as CTO at Neurocat (a Berlin-based AI safety startup), as Chief Science Officer at Alpha Health (Telefonica’s digital health moonshot project), and as Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Data Science at City, University of London.
Publications
Gastro-Health Project: Revolutionizing Personalized Nutrition and Health Forecasting Through Integrated AI Technologies
AI4X, 2025 | Uchenna Akujuobi, Jiu Yi, Maria Enrique Chung, Tarek Besold
Knowledge graphs are powerful tools for modelling complex, multi-relational data and supporting hypothesis generation, particularly in applications like drug repurposing. However, for predictive methods to gain acceptance as credible scientific tools, they must ensure not on...
FRUNI and FTREE synthetic knowledge graphs for evaluating explainability
NEURIPS, 2023 | Pablo Sanchez Martin, Tarek Besold, Priyadarshini Kumari
Research on knowledge graph completion (KGC)---i.e., link prediction within incomplete KGs---is witnessing significant growth in popularity. Recently, KGC using KG embedding (KGE) models, primarily based on complex architectures (e.g., transformers), have achieved remarkable...
What's Wrong with Gradient-based Complex Query Answering?
NESY, 2023 | Ouns El Harzli, Samy Badreddine, Tarek Besold
Multi-hop query answering on knowledge graphs is known to be a challenging computational task. Neurosymbolic approaches using neural link predictors have shown promising results but are still outperformed by combinatorial optimization methods on several benchmarks, including...
Machine Learning Security in Industry: A Quantitative Survey
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY, 2023 | L. Bieringer*, K. Grosse*, Tarek Besold, B. Biggio*, K. Krombholz*
Despite the large body of academic work on machine learning security, little is known about the occurrence of attacks on machine learning systems in the wild. In this paper, we report on a quantitative study with 139 industrial practitioners. We analyze attack occurrence and...
Blog Posts
Sony AI Reveals New Research Contributions at NeurIPS 2023
December 13, 2023 | Peter Stone, Alice Xiang, Jerone Andrews, Events, Kazuki Shimada, Apostolos Modas, Tarek Besold, William Thong, Dora Zhao*, Lingjuan Lyu, Orestis Papakyriakopoulos*, Xin Dong, Nidham Gazagnadou, Weiming Zhuang, Vivek Sharma, Yuki Mitsufuji, Chen Chen
Sony Group Corporation and Sony AI have been active participants in the annual NeurIPS Conference for years, contributing pivotal research that has ...