Hen Davidov, who completed his bachelor's degree at the Taub Faculty of Computer Science and is now working on his master's degree there, was selected for the 2025 Rhodes Scholars list. The selection will allow him to continue his doctorate at Oxford. He graduated with honors and is developing AI-based methods that help doctors diagnose breast cancer, and he intends to work on this for his doctorate as well. He is also an environmental activist who calls for equality and peaceful conflict resolution. The Rhodes Scholars program provides up to $320,000 per student. This year, the submission of applications was postponed by two weeks in favor of Israeli candidates serving in the reserves.
Davidov is developing artificial intelligence-based tools to improve medical decision-making in general, and in predicting patient survival in particular. According to him, "One of the main challenges in this field is dealing with uncertainty Built into predictions – sometimes it is difficult to assess their accuracy because information about patient survival is only obtained after prolonged follow-up. For example, if the AI system predicts that a patient with breast cancer will survive five years, but there is only a two-year follow-up, it is impossible to know whether the prediction is accurate – after all, we have no information about the future. Such uncertainty makes it difficult to evaluate the model’s performance and make informed decisions based on it. Therefore, in collaboration with Prof. Yaniv Romano, Shai Feldman, Gil Shamai and Prof. Ron Kimmel, we developed an innovative statistical method that provides an envelope of reliability for survival predictions using confidence intervals. The envelope allows the capabilities of artificial intelligence to be combined with a reliable assessment of the level of risk, thus supporting more informed decision-making.
According to Prof. Yaniv Romano, his master's advisor, "Hen is a brilliant and exceptionally talented student - his selection for the prestigious Rhodes Scholars list is not surprising at all. He embodies the excellence of the Technion in general and the Faculty of Computer Science in particular. I am curious to see how his skills will be expressed in the future of his academic and professional career." The two's paper, "Conformalized Survival Analysis for General Right-Censored Data," was recently accepted for the prestigious ICLR conference in Singapore.
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