George Kour
Senior Research Scientist at The Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Yaffo
Haifa, Haifa District, Israel
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Top SchoolGeorge Kour is a Senior Research Scientist at IBM Research with 12 years of experience applying deep learning, NLP and reinforcement learning to build and harden AI agents across their lifecycle. He leads red-teaming, safety and security efforts for interactive agents while developing advanced user-simulation frameworks to test and improve behavior. Holding a Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience and lecturing at the Academic College of Tel Aviv–Jaffa, he translates cognitive insights into practical AI methods and mentors the next generation of practitioners. George co-founded a collaborative music startup and provides pro-bono strategic guidance to Arab-Israeli and Palestinian AI founders, reflecting a blend of technical entrepreneurship and community impact. Based in Haifa, he combines rigorous research with hands-on engineering experience from Hewlett Packard Enterprise through his current leadership role at IBM. Notably, his work emphasizes adversarial evaluation and measurable robustness rather than only model performance metrics.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - B.Sc., Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - B.Sc., Computer Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - M.Sc. (Cum Laude), Computer Engineering, Master of Science - M.Sc. (Cum Laude), Computer Engineering at Tel Aviv UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - Ph.D., Computational Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - Ph.D., Computational Neuroscience at University of Haifa
Arabic, English, Hebrew
Github Skills (27)
simulation10
artificial-neural-networks10
simulator10
universe10
survival-analysis10
dqn10
latex10
paper10
artificial-life10
arxiv10
reinforcement-learning9
artificial-intelligence9
simulation-modeling9
artificial-general-intelligence9
machine-learning8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kourgeorge/behave_analysis
Aug 2016 - Apr 2024
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 9 months
kourgeorge/arabic-icr
Nov 2013 - Jul 2016
Contributions:169 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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