2019 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

141 CONFERENCES AND ACADEMIC VISITS 2019 Javier Rey (United Kingdom) Machine Learning Engineer on Facebook’s Ads Ranking team in London. He delivered the lecture “Applications of Machine Learning at Facebook” on November 18. Dr. Gerardo Schneider (Sweden) Professor of Computer Science at the University of Gothenburg. He taught the course “LegalTech: Specification and Analysis of Regulatory Documents” for the Master’s in Engineering (Research Track) and participated in the Seminar of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Chairs at the School of Engineering, as part of a project to foster ties with scientists and technologists abroad funded by the National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII), March 18–29. School of Communication and Design Carlos Pezzani, Engineer (Argentina), Technology Business Partner for Latin America, Grey Group. He delivered the lecture “You Can Heal Your Agency,” May 29. Prof. Mario Riorda (Argentina), Director of the Master’s Program in Political Communication at Austral University. Participated in the panel “Dimensions of the Disinformation Crisis” and in the summary panel “Contributions, Diagnoses, and Proposals” at the international colloquium “Disinformation as a Crisis,” organized by the School of Communication and Design with the support of UNESCO, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation, the School of Communications at the Catholic University of Chile, Observacom, and Antel, September 11. Prof. Mario Riorda