2020 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

99 Felipe Machado, a graduate of the Biotechnology Engineering program, and Guadalupe Sonneveld, a graduate of the Industrial Design program, alongside Gabriela da Rosa. Their startup, Hifa—incubated at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship—was recognized by the National Development Agency (ANDE) as the “Circular Startup of the Year” through its Uruguay Circular program. October. María Pía Campot, a graduate in Biotechnology Engineering and deputy coordinator of the Biotechnology Laboratory at the School of Engineering. She was selected as one of the 35 innovators under 35 in Latin America by MIT Technology Review in Spanish, in the Pioneers category, for her startup Enteria, incubated at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE). November. Franz Mayr, research teaching assistant in Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. His Master’s thesis in Engineering (Research Track), “Regular inference over recurrent neural networks as a method for black box explainability,” received the award for best master’s thesis in the Computer Science category at the 12th edition of the National Academy of Engineering’s Engineering Projects Competition. The thesis advisor was Dr. Sergio Yovine, academic coordinator of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data at the school. December. Likewise, Dan Blanco, Gastón Donadío, Victoria Rocha, Agustín Rodríguez, and Emiliano Rodríguez, Systems Engineering students, won the award for best undergraduate project in the Computing category for their final Systems Engineering project, “SkyGuard: Remote and Automated Livestock Management.” The project advisor was Engineer Mariel Feder, a project instructor at the school. December. Fernando Paganini, Vice Dean of Research and Professor of Telecommunications Theory. The article “Data for updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators,” authored by Dr. John Ioannidis of Stanford University, along with Jeroen Baas and Kevin Boyack, and published in the academic journal PLOS Biology, ranks Dr. Paganini among the top 2% of researchers with the greatest impact in his field internationally. October. He was also appointed a member of the Honorary Scientific Advisory Group (GACH) of the Office of the President of the Republic in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. April. Additionally, he was honored by the National Academy of Engineering for his work during the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside engineers Breogán Gonda, Nicolás Jodal, and Gastón Milano. December. Andrés Ferragut, associate professor in the Data Networks area. He was invited to collaborate with the Honorary Scientific Advisory Group (GACH) of the Office of the President of the Republic. He participates in the general coordination of the Models and Data Science Area led by Dr. Fernando Paganini, Vice Dean of Research and Professor of Telecommunications Theory at the School of Engineering. May. AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS 2020