Student Amanda Camacho Novaes de Oliveira's master's dissertation received third place in the XIII Contest for Theses and Dissertations in Artificial and Computational Intelligence (CTDIAC), a satellite event of the 11th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS), held at Unicamp on 28 November to December 1, 2022.

In this edition of the contest, theses and dissertations defended between June 2020 and July 2022 were considered, and only four were selected for the final phase, for face-to-face oral presentation before the contest evaluation committee.

The dissertation entitled "Improving The Learning Performance of The Restricted Boltzmann Machine Through Optimal Connectivity and Network Gradients", supervised by Prof. Daniel Ratton Figueiredo, was defended in March 2022.

Amanda joined the PESC doctorate in the same month to continue with postgraduate studies.

Congratulations to Amanda and her advisor!