Announcing the Awardees of the 2024-2025 Barel Travel Scholarships by TAD

Announcing the Awardees of the 2024-2025 Barel Travel Scholarships by TAD.

This program is funded with the support of Dr. Monique Barel, in the memory of Sylvain Barel.

Six students working in the fields of AI and Data Science from various disciplines at TAD were chosen to receive the "Barel Travel Scholarships" by the TAD committee.

As part of the Annual French Friends Scholarship Awarding Ceremony at Tel Aviv University on May 21, 2025, Dr. Monique Barel awarded the students who won the scholarships.

The awardees:

1. Arbel Yaniv, Engineering
   Research Title: "Explanatory Analysis and Machine Learning for City-Scale EV Charging Demand Prediction"
   Conference: Global Research Conference on Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development 2024, Germany

    

2. Sagi Ben Itzhak, Engineering
   Research Title: "Localization-Guided Supervision for Robust Medical Image Classification by Vision Transformers"
   Conference: ECCV 2024, Milan

    

3. Assaf Ben Kish, Engineering
   Research Title: "Mitigating Open Vocabulary Caption Hallucinations"
   Conference: Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2024 (EMNLP), USA.

    

4. Bruria Samuel, Life Sciences
   Research Title: "Plasmids Fight Back: Anti-Defense Systems Boost Conjugation Efficiency"
   Conference: CRISPR 2025, New Zealand

    

5. Adi Mager, Exact Sciences
   Research Title: "Leveraging AI for Material Identification in Unauthorized Dumps for Circular Economy Applications"
   Conference: IDSAI 2025, Israel

    

6. Alon Arad, Exact Sciences
   Research Title: "Improving Multi-Class Calibration through Normalization-Aware Isotonic Techniques"
   Conference: ICML 2025, Canada.

We thank Dr. Barel for the generous donation, which is instrumental in advancing the AI and data science research at TAU, and wish good luck to all the awardees in their research.