2020 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

114 2020 Yearbook CONFERENCES AND ACADEMIC VISITS 2020 School of Engineering Prof. Klaus Kümmerer (Germany) Director, Institute of Sustainable and Environmental Chemistry, Leuphana University of Lüneburg. He presented the virtual seminar “Evolution of chemistry. From chemistry to green chemistry to chemistry in a circular economy to sustainable chemistry,” as part of the Web#Biotecort Biotechnology Seminar Series, organized by the Chair of Protein Technology in the Department of Biotechnology, December 1. Prof. Alejandro Bianchi (Argentina) President of the software engineering company Liveware. He co-taught the course “Fundamentals of Big Data” for the Master’s in Big Data and the Specialization Diploma in Big Data Analytics, March through June. Dr. Agustín Gravano (Argentina) Professor and researcher in Computer Science at Torcuato Di Tella University. Participated in teaching the course Intelligent Agents for the Specialization Diploma in Artificial Intelligence and the Master’s in Big Data, March to June. Dr. Luis Olsina (Argentina) Associate Professor of Information Systems at the School of Engineering, National University of La Pampa. Dr. Jean Hauck (Brazil) Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Southern Santa Catarina. Dr. Sergio Lifschitz (Brazil) Associate Professor and Researcher in Databases with Applications in Bioinformatics at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. Served as external reviewers for the final projects in Systems Engineering, April 1 and 2. Dr. Luis Olsina (Argentina) Associate Professor of Information Systems at the School of Engineering, National University of La Pampa. Dr. Jean Hauck (Brazil) Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Southern Santa Catarina. They participated as external reviewers for the final projects of the Bachelor’s Degree in Systems on May 13. Miguel Sáez, Engineer (Argentina), CTO of LugLoc/GEGO, a company offering geolocation solutions for goods worldwide, with a focus on luggage and traceability for the transport of human organs. He participated as a guest speaker in the elective course “Connecting Things on the Internet of Things (IoT),” led by Gastón Mousqués and Dr. Andrés Ferragut, with the talk “Connecting Devices Globally,” May 20.