2017 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

109 AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS 2017 Faculty of Engineering Agustín Caldas, Fernando Urbano Castro, and Diego Pizzarello, Systems Engineering students; Lucio Oxandabarat, a student in the Bachelor’s Program in Systems; Pablo Pereira, a student in the Bachelor’s Program in Management and Administration; along with Lucas Baptista. They won first prize for Uruguay in the Innovation category of the Latin American Innovation Rally by solving the challenge “Generating alternative energy from everyday activities.” October. Likewise, Diego Areosa, Gastón Donadío, Fernando Martínez, Maximiliano Peszano, and Agustín Rodríguez, Systems Engineering students, and Maximiliano Pereira, a graduate of the Bachelor’s in Animation and Video Games program, won second prize for Uruguay in the same category for their “Smart Street Project.” October. Andrés Burel and Herman Schenck, graduates of the Telecommunications Engineering program. Their final thesis project, “Vlanator3000!: Application for Traffic Control and Optimization in Software-Defined Networks for Data Centers,” won first prize in the Telecommunications Thesis Projects category at the Final Projects and Graduate Thesis Competition organized by the National Academy of Engineering. December. Likewise, the project “Passive and Continuous Behavior-Based Authentication” by Franz Mayr, Franco Patrone, Herman Persitz, Javier Sanguinetti, and Ramiro Visca, Systems Engineering students, won first prize in the Computer Science Undergraduate Projects category. December. Marcelo Lanfranconi, a Systems Engineering graduate, alongside Leonardo Vernazza. His startup Paganza, supported by the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, was recognized by the Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technology (CUTI) as the best application in the Uruguayan technology industry in 2017. December. Mathías Lehrer, graduate of the Bachelor’s Degree in Systems. His app Yo Calculo was the winner of the 2017 AppCircus competition as the best Uruguayan app of the year. December. José Ignacio Rocca, graduate of Systems Engineering. He was recognized by the University of Birmingham as the top student in the Master’s in Human-Computer Interaction program. His thesis “Cognitive bias modification on tabletops,” developed alongside Charlie Pinder and Russell Beale, researchers at the HCI Centre at the University of Birmingham, was recognized as the best master’s project. December. Fernando Paganini, professor of Telecommunications Theory. He was elected a member of the Latin American Academy of Sciences. April.