{"id":40121,"date":"2026-02-25T09:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idiv.de\/?post_type=staff-manager&#038;p=40121"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:43:06","slug":"tarek-al-mustafa","status":"publish","type":"staff-manager","link":"https:\/\/www.idiv.de\/de\/staff\/tarek-al-mustafa\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarek al Mustafa"},"content":{"rendered":"    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"row pt-5 mb-5 profile-info\">\n            \n            <div class=\"col-md-6 offset-md-2\">\n                <div class=\"basic-info pt-3 text-md-start text-center\">\n                    <h2>\n                         \n                        Tarek \n                        al Mustafa                    <\/h2>\n                    <p>Doktorand<\/p>\n                                            <div class=\"groups\">\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idiv.de\/research\/projects\/#flexpool\" class=\"nmb btncf arrow pe-3\">Flexpool <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"7.621\" height=\"12.243\" viewBox=\"0 0 7.621 12.243\"><path id=\"Icon_feather-chevron-right\" data-name=\"Icon feather-chevron-right\" d=\"M17.5,17l-4-4,4-4\" transform=\"translate(19.621 19.121) rotate(180)\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#447226\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" stroke-width=\"3\"><\/path><\/svg><\/a>                        <\/div>\n                                    <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"col-md-4 col-lg-4 text-center p-4\">\n                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"472\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.idiv.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Tarek-al-Mustafa-Portrait-2026.png\" class=\"img-fluid rounded-circle wp-post-image\" alt=\"Portrait of Tarek al Mustafa (Photo: private)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.idiv.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Tarek-al-Mustafa-Portrait-2026.png 472w, https:\/\/www.idiv.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Tarek-al-Mustafa-Portrait-2026-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.idiv.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Tarek-al-Mustafa-Portrait-2026-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/>            <\/div>\n            \n            \n                            <div class=\"col-md-6 offset-md-2\">\n                    <div class=\"affiliations\">\n                        <h4 class=\"affiliations-title\">Affiliationen<\/h4>\n                        <p class=\"affiliations-body\">\n                            Friedrich-Schiller-Universit\u00e4t Jena                        <\/p>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            \n            \n            \n                            <div class=\"col-md-3 offset-md-2\">\n                    <div class=\"websites\">\n                        <h4 class=\"websites-title\">Webseiten<\/h4>\n                        <div class=\"websites-body\">\n                                                                                                <p class=\"mb-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmi.uni-jena.de\/en\/10505\/fusion-group\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"open in new tab\" class=\"text-decoration-none\">FUSION Group<\/a><\/p>\n                                                                                                                                <p class=\"mb-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7793-4483\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"open in new tab\" class=\"text-decoration-none\">ORCID<\/a><\/p>\n                                                                                                                                <p class=\"mb-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.de\/citations?user=7I5QRogAAAAJ&#038;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"open in new tab\" class=\"text-decoration-none\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/p>\n                                                                                                                                                                                                            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            \n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n\n<div class=\"textbildrepeater pb-24 pt-0 no-bg modulclass \" id=\"\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"row\">\n                                                                <div class=\"pb-24   mod_text  col-md-6 offset-md-3 pos_top\">\n                            <div class=\"textrepeater \" id=\"\">\n    <h2>Projects<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>iAnswer \u2013 Unveiling iDiv Knowledge Can Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs combined provide answers to peoples\u2019 questions?<\/li>\n<li>EcoWeaver \u2013 Mapping Evidence to Theory in Ecology &#8211; From Ecological Knowledge to Restoration Action (<a href=\"https:\/\/ecoweaver.hi-knowledge.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"open in new tab\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/ecoweaver.hi-knowledge.org\/<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Research Focus<\/h2>\n<p>In the iAnswer project, we aim to integrate the heaps of knowledge iDiv has amassed over its lifetime and make it available for people at large to support the generation of new insights for biodiversity research. To this end, we aim to create Knowledge Graphs (KGs) for data sources from iDiv&#8217;s PlantHub and plant phenomics and genomics data from IPB Halle. We develop and apply new KG modeling and construction techniques for higher quality KGs that align with the FAIR and CARE principles.<\/p>\n<p>Simplifying the interaction between users and KGs has been a central research question over the decades, as it represents one of the largest hurdles for the wide adoption of KGs in specialized domains due to the steep learning curve faced when learning SPARQL, the query language for KGs. iAnswer contributes to this issue as its main goal is the development of a question answering (QA) system that allows users of different levels of domain expertise to interact with the KGs using natural language. The central research question for this QA system is concerned with how information from a KG can be fed to an LLM to enhance its QA capabilities. This leaves potential for investigation of RAG techniques, retrieval methods that leverage schema-level information, purpose driven KG modeling for its QA application, searchable natural language embeddings inside the KG, and many more novel research ideas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Education<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sc. in Computer Science at Uni Jena (2022\u20132025)<\/li>\n<li>Sc. in Computer Science at Uni Jena (2017\u20132021)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Selected Publications<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Al Mustafa, T., 2025. From metadata to meaning: a semantic units knowledge graph for the biodiversity exploratories. Jena. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.22032\/dbt.67767\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"open in new tab\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.22032\/dbt.67767<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Marc Felix Brinner, Tarek Al Mustafa, and Sina Zarrie\u00df. 2025.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/2025.findings-emnlp.1238\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"open in new tab\" rel=\"noopener\">Enhancing Domain-Specific Encoder Models with LLM-Generated Data: How to Leverage Ontologies, and How to Do Without Them<\/a>. In\u00a0<em>Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025<\/em>, pages 22740\u201322754, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18653\/v1\/2025.findings-emnlp.1238\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"open in new tab\" rel=\"noopener\">18653\/v1\/2025.findings-emnlp.1238<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40117,"menu_order":100,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-40121","staff-manager","type-staff-manager","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tarek al Mustafa | iDiv<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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