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Master's student in Biomedical Engineering wins Best Scientific Article Award

13-10-2025

Bárbara Capelo,Master's student in Biomedical Engineering at NOVA FCT, was awarded the Best Scientific Article Award for her work “Evaluating Coreset Selection with Coverage and Density: A Data Quality Perspective”

 The article, presented at the 24.ª edição da EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2025, analyses how metrics traditionally used in synthetic data evaluation can help measure the quality of coloursets — small, highly informative subsets of large datasets used to train artificial intelligence models more efficiently. The research offers new insights into what defines a “good” data subset, beyond simple model performance, contributing to more efficient and interpretable AI systems.

The work was developed under the guidance of Duarte Folgado and Hugo Gamboa, professors at the Department of Physics at NOVA FCT, and included the collaboration of researchers from Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS, the institution where Bárbara Capelo completed her final master's project.