MSc student Beatriz Comparado has received the Best Poster Award in the Young Researcher Category at the X Workshop on Computational Data Analysis and Numerical Methods (WCDANM).

The award recognized her poster, entitled “Weighting for Improved Stochastic Gradient Boosting in Genomic Prediction,” which presents the development of robust machine learning methodologies for genomic prediction.

Beatriz is supervised by Vanda Lourenço (NOVA Math, Department of Mathematics, NOVA FCT) and João Lourenço (NOVA LINCS, Department of Computer Science, NOVA FCT). She is also a research fellow in the FCT-funded project REACTION (2023.14934.PEX), coordinated by Vanda Lourenço.