As part of the 3rd Science Recognition Conference, "Together in Research and Development," organized by the Directorate for the Development of Science and Knowledge of the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC), Franz Mayr’s master’s thesis in engineering was awarded the prize for Best Master’s Thesis in Engineering on behalf of Universidad ORT Uruguay.
The thesis, titled “Regular inference over recurrent neural networks as a method for black-box explainability,” was honored on December 4, 2019, at the Carlos Vaz Ferreira Auditorium at Sodre. Julio Fernández, the university’s vice president, attended the ceremony on behalf of ORT.
Mr. Mayr holds a bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, a certificate of specialization in Big Data Analytics, and a master’s degree in Engineering from the School of Engineering at Universidad ORT Uruguay, and serves as a research teaching assistant at that school.
In addition, the Scientific Council of the Mathematics Department at PEDECIBA awarded the 2019 Prize for Best Master’s Thesis in Mathematics to the thesis by Diego Goldsztajn, who holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad ORT Uruguay.
The award-winning thesis, titled "Limit theorems for continuous-time Markov chains and applications to large-scale queueing systems," was supervised by Dr. Andrés Ferragut, an associate professor in the Data Networks Division of the School of Engineering, and Dr. Fernando Paganini, the school’s vice dean for research.
Mr. Goldsztajn served as a research assistant in the MATE group (Group for Applied Mathematics in Telecommunications and Energy) at the School of Engineering of Universidad ORT Uruguay August 2019. In September 2019, he began his doctoral studies at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU Eindhoven) in the Netherlands.