{"id":9883,"date":"2020-12-02T16:53:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T19:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2022.aniu.org.uy\/sin-categorizar\/panel-data-science-and-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:48:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:48:35","slug":"panel-data-science-and-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2022.aniu.org.uy\/en\/news\/panel-data-science-and-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel: Data Science and Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On November 12, 2020, a panel was held by Zoom, on the general topic \u201cData Science and Artificial Intelligence.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" title=\"Data Science and Artificial Intelligence\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1110338141?badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The following researchers participated as panelists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dina Wonsever:<\/strong> Natural language processing<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gustavo V\u00e1zquez:<\/strong> Application of Natural Language Processing in Science<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gaston Milano:<\/strong> A New World of Interactions<\/li>\n<li><strong>Federico Lecumberry:<\/strong> Image Processing and Machine Learning in Biomedical Applications<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lucas Baldezzari:<\/strong> Brain-computer interface: 3D trajectory decoding<\/li>\n<li><strong>M\u00e1ximo Gurmendez:<\/strong> Big data applied in real time betting for advertisements<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alejandro Bianchi:<\/strong> Relevance of Software Engineering in the Development of Artificial Intelligence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following is a summary of each intervention and a brief biographical paragraph of each participant.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Dina Wonsever<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> Natural Language Processing<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> In recent years, there has been an important development of computer applications based on interacting with people in their own language. Personal assistants such as Siri and Alexa, increasingly powerful automatic translators, systems for analyzing consumer opinions, detecting hate speech, adjudicating authorship, among others, are increasingly involved in the information ecosystem that surrounds individuals and organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The PLN group of InCo, Faculty of Engineering, UDELAR, has been active for more than 20 years. He has worked on fundamentals, methods and applications related to text analysis, including temporality, citation and factuality analysis and information extraction.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, the main current lines of the group will be presented and a recent project developed by the PLN group will be summarized.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dina Wonsever holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Universit\u00e9 Paris IV, a Master\u2019s degree in Computer Science from Pedeciba-UdelaR and a degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, UdelaR. She is a Full Professor at the Institute of Computing, School of Engineering, UdelaR, Researcher grade 4 of Pedeciba Inform\u00e1tica, member of the National System of Researchers and the National Academy of Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>He led the Natural Language Processing (NLP) group for more than 20 years, promoting symbolic and statistical Natural Language processing activities. His areas of work include textual analysis of temporality, citation and factuality, information extraction in Spanish and English texts, syntactic analysis and segmentation in clauses. He has participated in projects related to different application domains, in particular the legal domain, the journalistic domain and scientific publications in the area of molecular biology.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h4>Federico Lecumberry<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> Image processing and machine learning in biomedical applications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> The Signal Processing Department of the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of the Republic has more than two decades of work in fundamentals, methods and applications in the area of signal processing (audio, images, video, data) and pattern recognition (machine learning).<\/p>\n<p>In this presentation I will give a brief overview of some of these lines with special emphasis on the combination of image processing and machine learning in biomedical applications, anomaly detection and modern deep learning methods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Federico Lecumberry is an Electrical Engineer, Master and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Universidad de la Rep\u00fablica. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Signal Processing of the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the School of Engineering at the Universidad de la Rep\u00fablica. He is also a collaborator at the Institut Pasteur in Montevideo, where he was responsible and Principal Investigator of the Signal Processing Laboratory (2014-2018).<\/p>\n<p>His research areas are Signal and Image Processing and Machine Learning with varied academic and industrial applications with special interest in Biomedicine. His research interests include Signal and Image Processing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Microscopy.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lecumberry is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, member (Level 2) of the National System of Researchers in Uruguay and member of the Uruguayan Society of Biosciences and the Uruguayan Society of Microscopy and Imaging. He is also a Grade 3 Researcher of the Basic Sciences Development Program (PEDECIBA) in the Mathematics Area.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h4>Gaston Milano<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> A new world of interactions<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> The global pandemic context, caused by Covid-19, generates great challenges to use data, IOT and artificial intelligence to help fight such a pandemic. Research in this direction has been carried out all over the world. Challenges and opportunities will be presented in this context.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gast\u00f3n Milano is a Computer Engineer from Universidad de la Rep\u00fablica, CTO of GeneXus and member of the National Academy of Engineering. Undergraduate Project Tutor at the Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de la Empresa.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h4>Alejandro Bianchi<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> Relevance of Software Engineering in Artificial Intelligence Development<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Founder and president of Liveware, a leading software engineering company in Argentina. He has a track record of more than thirty years of work and teaching in the area. Throughout this time he has gained experience in software development and IT management in various technical and management roles in different industrial domains such as IT, banking, healthcare and public sector. Alejandro is a Software Architecture Professional and Evaluator for the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, USA. He teaches in the Master in Big Data at Universidad ORT Uruguay.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h4>Lucas Baldezzari<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> Brain-Computer Interface: 3D Trajectory Decoding<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) are devices capable of monitoring, processing and interpreting a person\u2019s Electroencephalographic (EEG) signals in order to translate their intentions and thus carry out orders and commands that can be used in the control of wheelchairs, spellers or robotic devices, without using the usual muscular and nervous peripheral pathways. Current technology allows real-time recording and processing of EEG signals and together with Machine Learning (ML) algorithms it would be possible, for example, to determine which character on a monitor a person is looking at and thus implement a BCI speller. In this talk we will see what a BCI is about and its applications, such as a speller for people in a state of confinement and we will talk about the future line of research and development to be carried out at the Technological University of Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lucas Baldezzari is a bioengineer and professor in charge of the bioinformatics laboratory at UTEC.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h4>M\u00e1ximo Gurmendez<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> Big data applied in real time betting for advertisements<\/p>\n<p>Summary: Nowadays there are several opportunities to include advertisements in different media. These range from banners on websites to video commercials between episodes of streaming platforms. Many of these spaces are auctioned in real-time auctions between competing servers representing different advertisers and products. In this instance we will present the ecosystem and the challenges in Big Data that appear in this industry. We will also mention some projects carried out by the University of Montevideo on this subject.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>M\u00e1ximo holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Universidad de la Rep\u00fablica. Through Fulbright, he pursued his graduate studies in Boston, Massachusetts, earning a Master\u2019s degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. He currently works as chief engineer for Montevideo Labs, a consulting firm that provides software and data science services to companies in the USA where, in particular, machine learning and pattern detection techniques are used to optimize the placement of ads in real time.<\/p>\n<p>He is a member of the teaching staff of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Montevideo and is academic director of the Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Data Science for Business.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h4>Gustavo Vazquez<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> Application of Natural Language Processing in science.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gustavo Vazquez is director of the Department of Informatics and Computer Science at the Catholic University of Uruguay (Faculty of Engineering and Technologies). D. in Computer Science from the Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina). He is a member of the SNI (level II) and his research area is the development of models for the prediction of physicochemical properties in polymers and medicinal chemistry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 12, 2020, a panel was held by Zoom, on the general topic \u201cData Science and Artificial Intelligence.\u201d The following researchers participated as panelists: Dina Wonsever: Natural language processing Gustavo V\u00e1zquez: Application of Natural Language Processing in Science Gaston Milano: A New World of Interactions Federico Lecumberry: Image Processing and Machine Learning in Biomedical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anio-ing-2020","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2022.aniu.org.uy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2022.aniu.org.uy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2022.aniu.org.uy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2022.aniu.org.uy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2022.aniu.org.uy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2022.aniu.org.uy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2022.aniu.org.uy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2022.aniu.org.uy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2022.aniu.org.uy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2022.aniu.org.uy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}