Andres Ferragut Home Page
Professor of Networks and Communication Systems
School of Engineering,
I’m an Applied Mathematician by trade, Electrical Engineer by training and Computer Scientist as hobbyist. Currently, I am Chair of the Networks and Communication Systems department at Universidad ORT Uruguay, School of Engineering. I’ve got my PhD in Electrical Engineering from Universidad de la República (Uruguay) in 2011.
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.
During 2020-2021, I was drafted into the National Covid Response Task Force (GACH) together with many scientists, in the data analysis and modeling team. This was an awesome experience that really made a contribution in handling the pandemic in Uruguay, and I learned a lot from it.
Check out my publications, recent talks and GitHub projects!
News
| Sep 25, 2024 | I was invited by Bruce Hajek and R. Srikant to present our paper at the 60th Allerton Conference con Communications, Control and Computing. It’s always nice to visit UIUC and catch up with colleagues! [slides] |
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| Sep 02, 2024 | This week, we invited Prof. Jakub Tomczak from TU/Eindhoven to visit Universidad ORT Uruguay and lecture about Fundamentals of Generative AI. The course focus on the underlying mathematical and architectural aspects of deep learning models applied in Generative AI. Thanks Jakub for accepting the invitation!  |
| Aug 16, 2024 | Here is an excerpt of my talk (in Spanish) about electrical vehicles in the Forum about the 2nd Energy Transformation. My slides are available here.
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| May 06, 2024 | I am very grateful to have been invited by Professors Siva Theja Maguluri and Debankur Mukherjee to visit the Goergia Tech ISyE department. It’s been a busy week, we held a very nice seminar, and I’ve met a lot of nice colleagues!  |
| Mar 13, 2024 | I was kindly interviewed (in Spanish) by Emiliano Cotelo to discuss the growth and implications of data centers! |
Selected publications
- Proportional fairness for EV charging in overloadIEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Mar 2019
- Optimizing TTL caches under heavy-tailed demandsACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Mar 2016
- Network resource allocation for users with multiple connections: fairness and stabilityIEEE/ACM Transactions on networking, Mar 2013