Above: Receiving the Dan David Prize Scholarship from Mr. Jimmy Wales, co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia
Asi Abedelkadir was awarded a Dan David Scholarship by the Dan David Foundation last month.
Each year the Dan David Foundation awards 20 scholarships to outstanding doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers. Ten scholarships are awarded to students from universities all over the world and 10 scholarships to students from Tel Aviv University.
Asi is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science. He received his B.Sc and M.Sc. in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ben-Gurion University, respectively.
Asi is a member of a research group that aims to understand, process, and archive historical documents to make them available for scholars and researchers in various disciplines, such as history, linguistic, and archaeology. Asi’s research interests focus on document image segmentation and pattern recognition. His research tackles challenging problems in historical document image processing and provides efficient solutions for retrieving document images from large scale archives. Asi serves as an algorithm developer in a tri-lateral project that brings researchers from different disciplines and countries together to develop a system for historical document image processing.
Since 2011, Asi has been volunteering in a socially oriented academics association (Medad) which recruits and encourages academics and post-graduates to enrich the cultural and educational atmosphere in their village (local community). Since 2009, Medad's activity has been inspiring groups of Arab academics in different parts of the country who recognize the great potential of social involvement and its effect on local communities.
His advisor is Prof. Jihad El-Sana.
