Our team…
Senior members
Prof. Fernando Paganini
Vice-dean of Research and Chair of Telecommunications Theory
A Caltech graduate, his PhD thesis received the 1996 Wilts Prize and the 1996 Clauser Prize at Caltech. From 1996 to 1997 he was a postdoctoral associate at MIT. Between 1997 and 2005 he was on the faculty the Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA, reaching the rank of Associate Professor. Since 2005 he is Professor of Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering at Universidad ORT Uruguay, and currently Vice-Dean of Research. Dr. Paganini has received the 1995 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award, the 1999 Packard Fellowship, the 2004 George S. Axelby Best Paper Award. He is a member of the Uruguayan National Academy of Sciences, the Uruguayan National Academy of Engineering, and the Latin American Academy of Sciences. During the pandemic he served in Uruguay as one of three coordinators of the Honorary Scientific Advisory Group on Covid-19, receiving after the Presidency of the Republic Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE (2014) and a Fellow of IFAC (2023). His research interests are control and networks.
Prof. Andres Ferragut
Chair of Communication Systems and Networks
Applied Mathematician by trade, Electrical Engineer by training and Computer Scientist as hobbyist. Most of my research consists on the application of mathematical models to manage congestion and resource allocation in complex networked systems, such as the Internet or Energy Networks. My focus is on Probability, Stochastic Processes and Queueing Theory, and I’m also a fan of Convex Optimization, Dynamic programming, Control Theory and Probability and Statistics in general. I’ve been an Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (2016-2020) and co-TPC Chair of Valuetools’20. I am categorized as Level II Researcher by the National Research System (SNI) and I am also part of PEDECIBA-Matemática. Since 2021 I’ve been part of the Technical Area Committee for Engineering in the SNI.
Research Staff
Matias Carrasco
Researcher.
He received his Bachelor’s (2005) and Master’s (2008) degrees in Mathematics from Universidad de la República, Uruguay. He obtained his Doctorat en Mathématiques from Aix-Marseille Université in 2011. He has held postdoc positions at the Universitat de Barcelona (2012) and Université Paris-Sud Orsay (2013-2014). Since 2015 he is Profesor Adjunto at the Universidad de la República. During 2017-2019 he was Maître de Conférences Invité at the Université de Lille. Since 2022 he is Docente Investigador at Universidad ORT Uruguay. His research interest are on the interplays between geometry, analysis and probability theory, and more recently in applied probability.
Diego Goldsztajn
Postdoc, starts Dec 2024
He received his PhD from the Eindhoven University of Technology in 2023, supervised by Sem Borst and Johan van Leeuwaarden. In 2024, he was awarded an Honorable Mention for his PhD Thesis by ACM Sigmetrics. He was also a Postdoc at INRIA Sophia Antipolis with K. Avrachenkov, and worked previously in Grupo MATE between 2016 and 2019 towards his MSc Degree. He is also a BSc in Math and Engineering. His research interests are fluid and difussion limits for load balancing in networked queueing systems.
