Andres Ferragut Home Page

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Professor of Networks and Communication Systems

School of Engineering,

Universidad ORT Uruguay


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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]
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.
May 06, 2024 I am very grateful to have been invited by Professors Siva Theja Maguluri and Debankur Mukherjee to visit the Georgia 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

  1. Generalized Exact Scheduling: a Minimal-Variance Distributed Deadline Scheduler
    Yorie Nakahira, Andres Ferragut, and Adam Wierman
    Operations Research, Mar 2023
  2. Respect the unstable: delays and saturation in contact-tracing for disease control
    Richard Pates, Andres Ferragut, Richard Pivo, Pengcheng You, Fernando Paganini, and Enrique Mallada
    SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Mar 2022
  3. Decoupling between SARS-CoV-2 transmissibility and population mobility associated with increasing immunity from vaccination and infection in South America
    Marcelo Fiori, Gonzalo Bello, Nicolás Wschebor, Federico Lecumberry, Andres Ferragut, and Ernesto Mordecki
    Scientific Reports, Mar 2022
  4. Proportional fairness for EV charging in overload
    Martin Zeballos, Andres Ferragut, and Fernando Paganini
    IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Mar 2019
  5. Optimizing TTL caches under heavy-tailed demands
    Andres Ferragut, Ismael Rodrı́guez, and Fernando Paganini
    ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Mar 2016
  6. Network resource allocation for users with multiple connections: fairness and stability
    Andres Ferragut, and Fernando Paganini
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on networking, Mar 2013
  7. Network Stability Under Alpha Fair Bandwidth Allocation With General File Size Distribution
    Fernando Paganini, Kevin Tang, Andres Ferragut, and Lachlan L. H. Andrew
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Mar 2012