David Robredo receives the award for the best academic record of his year in Computer Engineering

The researcher David Robredo, currently affiliated with CiTIUS through the project DeepR3.gal and a student of the Master's in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Santiago de Compostela, has received the Extraordinary Award for Academic Performance from the European University Miguel de Cervantes (UEMC). The award ceremony, which recognized Robredo as having the best academic record in the Bachelor's in Computer Engineering, took place yesterday during the ceremony organized by the Valladolid university to recognize the best academic records of the 2023-2024 academic year. These honors are awarded to students who, having completed their studies the previous year, achieved an average grade equal to or greater than 7.5.

From Valladolid to Santiago de Compostela

Born in Palencia, David Robredo pursued the Bachelor's in Computer Engineering at UEMC before joining USC as a student of the Master's in Artificial Intelligence. Currently, he is part of the CiTIUS team linked to the project DeepR3.gal, an applied research initiative that seeks to reduce the environmental impact of large language models while promoting the development of more responsible, efficient technologies adapted to the multilingual context of the country.

The DeepR3.gal project is part of a coordinated nationwide effort within the framework of the plan “DeepR3: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle large models to develop responsible and green language technologies”, funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation and the European Union through the NextGenerationEU funds.

In the case of the Galician node, led by USC through CiTIUS (a center co-financed by the European Union through the Galicia Feder 2021-2027 Program), the work focuses on defining ethical, legal, and cultural guidelines for natural language processing (NLP); evaluating models and tasks using new specific metrics; and validating practical applications in fields such as meteorology and health, through the automatic generation of multilingual reports and alerts.

The award to David Robredo endorses CiTIUS's effort to attract young talent among the brightest students, a determined commitment to incorporating profiles with specialized training in artificial intelligence to consolidate its leadership as a reference in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research and deepen the study of new language technologies, one of the key sectors in the PERTE of the New Language Economy.