2017 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

134 2017 Yearbook CONFERENCES AND ACADEMIC VISITS 2017 Dr. Agustín Gravano (Argentina) Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires. He delivered the lecture “Machine Learning Techniques for Speech Processing” on October 23. Dr. Juan Manuel Bolívar (Austria) Researcher at the Institute of Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering at Graz University of Technology. He presented on “Microreactors in Bioprocesses” as part of the Heterogeneous Biocatalysis course at the Biotechnology Research and Innovation Center (CBI+I), December 5. Dr. Roseli de Deus Lopes (Brazil) Professor in the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering at the University of São Paulo. Fernando Gherson Figueiredo (Brazil) Member of the Entrepreneurship Center at the University of São Paulo. They coordinated with the Online Learning team at the School of Engineering to launch the Portuguese version of the MOOC course ¡A Programar! titled "Programe-se," September 15. Dr. Lorena Wilson (Chile) Director of Graduate Programs at the School of Biochemical Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso. She presented on Heterogeneous Kinetics and Immobilization of Unsupported Enzymes in the Heterogeneous Biocatalysis course at the Biotechnology Research and Innovation Center (CBI+I) on December 4 and 5. Dr. Agustín Gravano