As part of the Comemoração Novos Mestres 2025, held on November the 22nd at Casa da Música, the Prof. Dr. Raul Vidal/Deloitte Award was presented for the fourth time since its creation in 2022.
The jury awarded the prize to António Oliveira Ferreira, a recent graduate of the Master’s in Informatics and Computing Engineering, who received a cash prize of €3,000.
As part of his Master’s thesis, entitled “Architectural design for the integration of Federated Learning Strategies: the NOUS Project use case,” and supervised by Prof. Ademar Aguiar (DEI), António developed a conceptual software architecture, composed of several interrelated components, which allows human input and supervision to be introduced into Federated Learning systems (decentralised Machine Learning), in order to prevent Artificial Intelligence from making 100% of a system’s decisions.
During his academic career he participated in various social and charitable activities and initiatives, as well as activities organised by JuniFEUP, FEUP’s Junior Enterprise, which enriched his career and contributed positively to the evaluation of his application.
Regarding the recognition, António shares: “It was with great gratitude that I received this award. Once again, many thanks to Deloitte for choosing me, it was an honour.”
He recently joined the Geração Caixa Programme, a trainee programme at Caixa Geral de Depósitos, where he will grow personally and professionally over the course of a year.
*This award is intended to honour a recent graduate from one of the following FEUP courses each year: Master’s in Computer Engineering and Computing (M.EIC) and Master’s in Software Engineering (MESW), who has distinguished themselves in curricular activities, for the quality and innovation of their work in the field of Software Engineering, and for their activities in support of students and of a social and charitable nature.