2018 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

87 School of Engineering Magdalena Ripoll, B.S. (Germany) Graduate in Biotechnology Engineering. She presented the paper “Dihydroxyacetone production via heterogeneous biotransformations of crude glycerol” 1 at the 3rd Green & Sustainable Chemistry Conference, organized by Elsevier, Berlin, May 13–16. Franz Mayr, Eng. (Germany) Lecturer and Research Assistant at the School of Engineering. He presented the paper “Regular inference on artificial neural networks” 2 at the CD-MAKE 2018 conference (International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction), Hamburg, August 27–30. Dr. Gerardo Matturro (Argentina) Research Professor in Software Engineering and Associate Academic Coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree in Systems. He taught a course on Requirements Engineering as part of the Doctoral Program in Computer Science at the Faculty of Exact, Physical, and Natural Sciences of the National University of San Juan, September 3–7. 1 Conducted together with Erienne Jackson, B.S., research teaching assistant at the Faculty of Engineering of Universidad ORT Uruguay, and Dr. Lorena Betancor, professor of Protein Technology. 2 Conducted together with Dr. Sergio Yovine, professor of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data at the Faculty of Engineering of Universidad ORT Uruguay. Dr. Inés Friss de Kereki (Argentina) Professor of Programming. She presented the paper “Teaching Assistants in Introductory Programming Courses: Selection, Training, Evaluation, and Reflections” 3 at the 2018 Argentine Conference on Computer Science (JAIIO), organized by the Argentine Society of Computer Science and the School of Engineering at the University of Palermo, Buenos Aires, September 5–7. Prof. Martín Monteiro (Argentina) Coordinator of the Physics Laboratory. He presented the papers “The triplets’ paradox. The Role of Acceleration in Special Relativity” and “More Physics Experiments with Your Smartphone” 4 at the 103rd Meeting of the Argentine Physics Association, Buenos Aires, September 17–20. 3 Conducted in collaboration with Eng. Alejandro Adorjan, associate academic coordinator of Systems Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of Universidad ORT Uruguay. 4 Conducted together with Dr. Cecilia Cabeza and Dr. Arturo Martí, professors of Applied Physics at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of the Republic (Udelar), and Dr. Cecilia Stari, professor of Solid-State Physics at the Faculty of Engineering of Udelar. Dr. Inés Friss de Kereki ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES ABROAD 2018