SISTEDES Award for the Best Master's Thesis 2026

Alexandra González has been awarded the 2026 SISTEDES Award for Best Master's Thesis on New Methodologies and Tools for Software Development (Premio SISTEDES al mejor Trabajo Fin de Máster sobre nuevas metodologías y herramientas para el desarrollo de software).

The award recognises her Master's thesis, entitled “An Automatic Classification of Open Source Pre-Trained Models for Software Engineering”, which was defended in July 2025 as part of the Master's Degree in Advanced Telecommunication Technologies (MATT).

The research was supervised by Xavier Franch and Silverio Martínez-Fernández and focuses on the automatic classification of open-source pre-trained models for software engineering.

This recognition highlights the relevance and contribution of Alexandra González's research to the development of new methodologies and tools in the software engineering field.

More information: Read the Master's thesis in the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya repository.