Latin America Research Awards recipients

Professor: Francisco Soulignac Student: Gonzalo Lera-Romero University: Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) "Routing problems under congestion: algorithms, efficient implementations and real data"

Professor: Marcus Ritt Student: Alex Gliesch University: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) "Heuristic algorithms for fair land distribution and districting problems"

Professor: Barbara Poblete Student: Juglar Diaz University: Universidad de Chile (UChile) "Leveraging spatio-temporal annotated textual data with neural network models"

Professor: Luis Felipe Giraldo Trujillo Student: Gilberto Jose Diaz Garcia University: Universidad de los Andes (Uniandes) "Computational Models of Cooperation in Underprivileged Communities Part 2"

Professor: Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca Student: Rodrigo Cardoso da Silva University: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) "Reduction of service latency by the employment of unmanned aerial vehicles as fog nodes"

Professor: Paulo Roberto Ferreira Jr. Student: Jean Roberto Antunes University: Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPelotas) "Pest Sensing through a Wireless Intelligent Trap Network"

Professor: Nélio Cacho Student: Adelson Araujo Jr University: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) "Towards Interpretation and Interaction of Predictive Policing Systems based on Machine Learning"

Professor: Ana Gabriela Maguitman Student: Mariano Maisonnave University: Universidad Nacional del Sur "Learning Causal Models from Digital Media"

Professor: Wagner Meira Junior Student: Derick Oliveira University: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) "Automatic and interpretable classification of 12-lead electrocardiogram"

Professor: Sandra Avila Student: Alceu Bissoto University: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) "Improving Skin Cancer Classification with Generative Adversarial Networks — Extension"

Professor: Felipe Meneguzzi Student: Laura Tomaz da Silva University: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS) "Visual Explanations for fMRI Neuroimaging Data"

Professor: Eduardo da Silva Student: Wesley Passos University: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) "Automatic Detection of Aedes aegypti Breeding Grounds using Computer Vision and Machine Learning"

Professor: Rodrigo Mello Student: Daniel Cestari University: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) "Designing Kernel space transformations from supervised data"

Professor: Anderson Rocha Student: Antonio Theophilo University: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) "Fighting Fake News Through Authorship Attribution and Phylogeny Analysis"

Professor: Rodrigo Barros Student: Eduardo Pooch University: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS) "Improving Pathology Localization on Chest Radiographs with Limited Supervision via Semi-Supervised Multiple-Instance Learning"

Professor: João Trindade Marques Student: João Paulo Almeida University: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) "Machine learning approaches for virus identification in Aedes mosquitoes using small RNAs"

Professor: Fabio Gonzalez Student: Santiago Toledo-Cortés University: Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL) "Computational Learning Model for the Eye Fundus Analysis to Support Medical Diagnosis"

Professor: Pablo Arbelaez Student: Laura Daza University: Universidad de los Andes (Uniandes) "Lung Nodule Detection and Malignancy Prediction Using Multimodal Neural Networks"

Professor: Winston Percybrooks Student: Pedro Narvaez University: Universidad del Norte (Uninorte) "Towards large scale, intelligent, computer-aided auscultation for remote primary- care settings (3rd year PhD project extension)"

Professor: Mirko Zimic Student: Macarena Vittet University: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) "A cost-effective approach for diagnostics of autism in children in low-resource settings by combination of gaze preference, pupillometry and emotion gesture recognition, performed on a portable computing device using machine learning/computer vision"

Professor: Mario Linares-Vásquez Student: Camilo Escobar-Velásquez University: Universidad de los Andes (Uniandes) "Enabling Automated Software Engineering Tasks for Closed-Source Mobile Apps"

Professor: Renata Vieira Student: Henrique Santos University: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS) "Adverse Event Detection in Electronic Health Records: Fall and Medication Errors Incidents"

Professor: Maria José Finatto Student: Liana Paraguassu University: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) "MedSimples: an automatic simplification tool for increased accessibility in health communication"

Professor: Olga Goussevskaia Student: Otavio Augusto Souza University: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) "Concurrent Self-Adjusting Distributed Tree Networks"

Professor: Gonzalo Navarro Student: Dustin Cobas University: Universidad de Chile (UChile) "Practical and Flexible Indexes on Repetitive String Collections"

Professor: Jorge Arigony-Neto Student: Guilherme Netto University: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (Brazil) "Low-cost autonomous stations for measuring the impacts of climate change on glaciers"

Professor: Marcus Rolf Peter Ritt Student: Alex Gliesch University: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) "Heuristic algorithms for fair land distribution and districting problems"

Professor: Eduardo Francisco Caicedo Bravo Student: Andrés Alejandro Diaz Toro University: Universidad del Valle (Colombia) "Wearable system for assisting blind people in purposeful navigation at real time using a RGBD camera, an embedded processing device and haptic feedback"

Professor: Luis Felipe Giraldo Trujillo Student: Gilberto Jose Diaz Garcia University: Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) "Computational Models of Cooperation in Under-priviledged Communities"

Professor: Carlos Morimoto Student: Candy Gonzales University: Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil) "Communication and Control by Gaze Interaction in Augmented Reality"

Professor: Teodiano Freire Bastos-Filho Student: Alexandre Bissoli University: Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Brazil) "Multimodal Assistive Domotics Including Augmentative and Alternative Communication"

Professor: Sixto Campaña Student: Edna Bernal University: Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (Colombia) "Development of an IOT-based Platform for Monitoring Pregnant Mother in Risk of Preeclampsia"

Professor: Leonardo Oliveira Student: Antonio Neto University: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil) "AoT: Authentication and Access Control for the Entire IoT Device Life-Cycle"

Professor: Nelio Cacho Student: Adelson Araujo Jr University: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil) "Automation of Patrol Planning by Learning from Crimes and News"

Professor: Paulo Roberto Ferreira Jr Student: William Dalmorra de Souza University: Universidade Federal de Pelotas (Brazil) "Pest Sensing through a Wireless Intelligent Trap Network"

Professor: Luciana Ferrer Student: Jazmín Vidal Domínguez University: Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) "A Virtual Tutor for Learning English Pronunciation"

Professor: Winston Spencer Percybrooks Student: Pedro Narvaez University: Universidad del Norte (Colombia) "Towards large scale, intelligent, computer-aided auscultation for remote primary-care settings"

Professor: Mirko Zimic Peralta Student: Jorge Coronel University: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (Peru) "Reduction of the complexity, time, and cost of diagnosing tuberculosis via the use of lens-free microscopy, mobile internet, and computer image analysis"

Professor: Denis Mauá Student: Heitor Ribeiro University: Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil) "Anytime Algorithms For Finding Maximum Probability Configurations in Deep Probabilistic Models"

Professor: Renato Krohling Student: Giuliano Lacerda Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Brazil) "E-farmer- An app based on image recognition to assist farmers in the identification and control of diseases of coffee trees"

Professor: Anderson Rocha Student: Antonio Theophilo University: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil) "Fighting "Fake News" Through Authorship Attribution and Phylogeny Analysis"

Professor: Estevam Hruschka Student: Antonio Petri University: Universidade Federal de São Carlos (Brazil) "Anomaly detection in vehicle sensors network using Deep Learning"

Professor: Rodrigo Barros Student: Jonatas Wehrmann University: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) "Efficient Neural Models for Multimodal Retrieval, Captioning, and Visual Question & Answering"

Professor: Wagner Meira Junior Student: Manoel Horta Ribeiro University: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil) "Moderating Hateful and Fake Content with Context in Online Social Networks"

Professor: Sandra Avila Student: Alceu Bissoto University: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil) "Improving Skin Cancer Classification with Generative Adversarial Networks"

Professor: Juan Pablo Galeott Student: Ivan Arcuschin University: Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) "Evolutiz: Multi-objective Test Generation for Testing Evolving Android Applications"

Professor: Mario Linares-Vasquez Student: Camilo Escobar-Velasquez University: Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) "Enabling Automated Software Engineering Tasks for Closed-Source Mobile Apps"

Professor: Fernando Magno Quintão Pereira Student: Junio Silva University: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil) "Intelligent DVFS"

Professor: Renata Vieira Student: Henrique Dias Pereira dos Santos University: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) "Adverse Event Detection in Electronic Health Records"

Professor: Edgar Emmanuel Vallejo Clemente Student: Kevin Islas Abud University: Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México (Mexico) "Predicting Zika epidemics using social and vectorial contact networks"

Professor: Fabrício Benevenuto Student: Julio Reis University: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil) "A Trust Score for News"

Professor: Jorge Arigony Neto Student: Guilherme Tomaschewski Netto University: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (Brazil) "Low-cost autonomous stations for measuring the impacts of climate change on glaciers"

Professor: Marcus Rolf Peter Ritt Student: Alex Zoch Gliesch University: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) "Heuristic algorithms for fair land distribution and districting problems"

"Professor: Teodiano Freire Bastos-Filho Student: Alexandre Luís Cardoso Bissoli University: Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Brazil) "Multimodal Assistive Domotics Including Augmentative and Alternative Communication"

Professor: Anselmo Frizera Neto Student: Andrés Alberto Ramírez Duque Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Brazil) "Multimodal Interaction Environment based on Computer Vision and Robotic Device for Assisting the Diagnosis of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder"

Professor: Maria da Graça Campos Pimentel Student: Raiza Tamae Sarkis Hanada\n*Universidade de São Paulo em São Carlos (Brazil) "A Dwell-Free Eye typing intelligent tool for motor disabilities users"

Professor: Rodrigo F. Cádiz Student: Andrés Aparicio Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile) "Auditory graphs: conveying data through sound for the visually-impaired"

Professor: Marcos André Gonçalves Student: Clebson Cardoso Alves de Sá Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil) "Optimizing Ensembles of Boosted Additive Bagged Trees for Learning-to-Rank"

Professor: Rodrigo Coelho Barros Student: Jônatas Wehrmann Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) "Order Embeddings and Character-level Convolutions for Multimodal Retrieval and Synopsis Generation"

Professor: César Rennó Costa Student: Ana Claudia Costa da Silva Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil) "Bringing sleep research into the realm of machine learning: optimization of a biologically-sound deep learning SLAM algorithm through offline self-organization of vertices "

Professor: Hiram Eredín Ponce Espinosa Student: José Guillermo González Mora Universidad Panamericana (Mexico) "Transfer Learning Using Artificial Hydrocarbon Networks: A Case Study in Robotics"

Professor: Cristina Nader Vasconcelos Student: Felipe Moure Cícero Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil) "Skin Lesion Classification, Segmentation and Dermoscopic Patterns Detection Using Deep Learning"

Professor: André Ricardo Abed Grégio Student: Fabrício José de Oliveira Ceschin Universidade Federal do Paraná (Brazil) "Identifying Concept-Drift in Malware Classifiers and the Applicability of Deep-Learning Detectors for APTs"

Professor: Eduardo Alves do Valle Junior Student: Michel Silva Fornaciali Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil) "Reliable Automated Melanoma Screening for the Real World – Year 2"

Professor: Wagner Meira Jr Student: Roberto C.S.N.P. Souza Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil) "Hot Spot Mining from Case-Control Trajectories"

Professor: Winston Spencer Percybrooks Bolivar Student: Pedro Juan Narváez Rosado Universidad del Norte (Colombia) "Towards large scale, intelligent, computer-aided auscultation for remote primary-care settings"

Professor: Pablo Andres Arbelaez Escalante Student: Andres Felipe Romero Vergara Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) "Learning Dynamic Action Units for Three-dimensional Facial Expression Recognition"

Professor: Anderson de Rezende Rocha Student: José Ramon Trindade Pires Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil) "Automated Data-Driven Screening of Diabetic Retinopathy"

Professor: Luis Carlos González Gurrola Student: Manuel Ricardo Carlos Loya Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua (Mexico) "Learning Roadway Surface Disruptions patterns to improve transportation Infrastructure"

Professor: Moacir Antonelli Ponti Student: Patricia Bet Universidade de São Paulo em São Carlos (Brazil) "Mobile inertial sensors for fall risk screening and prediction"

Professor: Juan Pablo Galeotti Student: Iván Arcuschin Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) "Evolutiz: Multi-objective Test Generation for Testing Evolving Android Applications"

Professor: Fernando Magno Quintão Pereira Student: Junio Cezar Ribeiro da Silva Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil) "Intelligent DVFS"

Professor: Sidarta Tollendal Gomes Ribeiro Student: Ana Raquel Torres Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil) "Non-semantic graph analysis for automated assessment and early diagnosis of cognitive disabilities in the school environment"

Professor: Pedro Olmo Stancioli Vaz de Melo Student: Túlio Corrêa Loures Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil) "Discussion-Based Entity Representation"

Professor: Mirko Zimic Peralta Student: Jorge Coronel Herrera Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (Peru) "Improvements to facilitate the diagnostics of tuberculosis in low resources settings using mobile technologies and artificial intelligence"

Professor: Edgar Emmanuel Vallejo Clemente Student: Kevin Islas Abud Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Mexico) "Predicting Zika epidemics using social and vectorial contact networks"

Professor: Jose Correa Student: Raimundo Saona Universidad de Chile (Chile) "Adaptive and Personalized Sequential Posted Prices"

Professor: Gonzalo Navarro Student: Patricio Huepe Follert Universidad de Chile (Chile) "Engineering Compressed Random Access Memories"