Scholar
Andres Ferragut
Google Scholar ID: W93dcfkAAAAJ
Universidad ORT Uruguay
Citations & Impact
Citations
281
H-index
8
i10-index
7
Publications
20
Co-authors
23
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- He has published several papers, including 'Generalized Exact Scheduling: a Minimal-Variance Distributed Deadline Scheduler' (Operations Research, 2023), 'Respect the unstable: delays and saturation in contact-tracing for disease control' (SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2022), and 'Decoupling between SARS-CoV-2 transmissibility and population mobility associated with increasing immunity from vaccination and infection in South America' (Scientific Reports, 2022).
Research Experience
- He has been an Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (2016-2020) and co-TPC Chair of Valuetools'20. He is categorized as a Level II Researcher by the National Research System (SNI) and is part of PEDECIBA-Matemática. Since 2021, he has been part of the Technical Area Committee for Engineering in the SNI. During 2020-2021, he was drafted into the National Covid Response Task Force (GACH) in the data analysis and modeling team.
Education
- He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Universidad de la República (Uruguay) in 2011.
Background
- An applied mathematician by trade, electrical engineer by training, and computer scientist as a hobbyist. Currently, he is the Chair of the Networks and Communication Systems department at Universidad ORT Uruguay, School of Engineering. His research interests include applying mathematical models to manage congestion and resource allocation in complex networked systems such as the Internet or Energy Networks. He focuses on Probability, Stochastic Processes, and Queueing Theory, and is also a fan of Convex Optimization, Dynamic Programming, Control Theory, and Probability and Statistics in general.
Miscellany
- His personal interests include computer science. He has been interviewed on TV shows about power outages.
