2019 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

116 2019 Yearbook, School of Engineering, Santiago Topolansky, Systems Engineering student. The SOX! project—technology for the rapid rescue of survivors of landslides caused by natural disasters—developed by Topolansky alongside Alejandro Díaz, José Ignacio Duró, Joaquín Fernández, María Josefina Martínez, Manuel Sánchez, Felipe Santisteban, and Tomás Vázquez, won first prize at the Latin American Innovation Rally. The project also took second place in the international competition’s Innovation category. October. Gonzalo Alvariño, Manuela Cannella, Facundo Laxalde, Leandro Núñez, and José Solsona, graduates of the Systems Engineering program. Their project “NoGluten: a support platform for celiac disease” won first prize in the National Academy of Engineering’s Undergraduate and Graduate Project Competition in the Undergraduate Computing Projects category. November. Additionally, the project “RITI: Hybrid Virtual PBX Solution with Automatic Cloud Provisioning” by Juan José Behrend and Gastón Pouquette, Telecommunications Engineering students, won first prize in the Telecommunications Engineering Undergraduate Projects category. November. Meanwhile, the project “SmartFermentor: Automatic Control, Management, and Monitoring Applied to a Bioreactor” by Carlos Cigliutti and Fernando Hernández Gobertti, graduates of the Electronics Engineering program, won first prize in the Electronics Engineering Undergraduate Projects category. November. Franz Mayr, research teaching assistant in the Artificial Intelligence and Big Data department and graduate of the Master’s in Engineering (Research Track). His thesis “Regular inference over recurrent neural networks as a method for black box explainability” won the Best Master’s Thesis in Engineering award granted by the Ministry of Education and Culture on behalf of Universidad ORT Uruguay part of the 3rd Conference on Recognition of Science – Together in Research and Development, organized by the Directorate for the Development of Science and Knowledge of the Ministry of Education and Culture. December. Likewise, the Scientific Council of the Mathematics Area at Pedeciba awarded Diego Goldsztajn, a graduate in Telecommunications Engineering and former research assistant at the Faculty of Engineering, the award for Best Master’s Thesis in Mathematics for his work “Limit theorems for continuous time Markov chains and applications to large-scale queueing systems,” supervised by Dr. Andrés Ferragut, associate professor in the Data Networks Area of the School of Engineering, and Dr. Fernando Paganini, vice dean of research at the school. December. Mayr also received the Santander Ibero-America Research Fellowship to conduct a three-month research stay at the Laboratory of Underwater Systems and Technology at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal. December. AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS 2019