Mellon Grant: Software Studies Initiative is awarded 477K $ for the project: ‘Tools for the Analysis and Visualization of Large Image and Video Collections for the Humanities’. PI of the project is Lev Manovich; one of the case studies of the project is directed by A.A. Akdag Salah, 2012-2015.

VENI Innovational Research Incentives Scheme by NWO (The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research): Awarded a personal grant of 300K $ for the project entitled ‘deviantArt: Mapping the Alternative Art World’, 2011-2014.

VKS Postdoctoral Fellow, Virtual Knowledge Studio, KNAW, Amsterdam: Received a 3-month postdoctoral scholarship for analyzing the special place of Leonardo at the intersection of arts, sciences and technology, with the specific aim of maturing the ideas proposed in a chapter of my PhD dissertation, as well as supporting them with quantitative analysis, 2009.

Digital Humanities Fellow, CDH & UDHIG, UCLA: Received a full scholarship and technological support from Center for Digital Humanities and UCLA Digital Humanities Incubator Group to conduct a text mining and citation networks project for the duration of 2006/2007 academic year. The project is designed to provide a backbone structure for the dissertation.

Central European University, Budapest, Hungary: Awarded with a full scholarship by the Soros Foundation for the ‘From Art History to Visual Culture Studying the Visual after the Cultural Turn’ summer school, July 2002.

Central European University, Budapest, Hungary: Awarded with a full scholarship by the Soros Foundation for the ‘Theory and History of Art after the Cultural Turn’  summer school, July 2001.