<blockquote>''Life's Too Short for Just One Passion''</blockquote>[[File:BrianLorenzo profileBrianLorenzoProfilePic2024.jpg|alt=|left|thumb|300x300px|Ready to <u>Brian Lorenzo. Quote in the background "Creativity is intelligence having fun"]]<span id="docs-internal-guid-7854218d-7fff-6cb9-7b4a-1b775c7f35dc"/u><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0storming some ideas, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brian Lorenzo is an advanced Electronic Engineering student at here's my [httphttps://universityinnovationwww.orglinkedin.com/wikiin/Universidad_Cat%C3%B3lica_del_Uruguay Universidad Católica del brian-lorenzo/ LinkedIn]]]'''Brian Lorenzo''' is a driven Electronics Engineer based in Montevideo, Uruguay.] He is involved in several extracurricular activities such as young mass, boardgames club passionate about leveraging technology and different events as innovation to make a class representative of his majorpositive impact, particularly in education.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-7854218d-7fff-6cb9-7b4a-1b775c7f35dc"><span style="font-sizeBrian's career reflects his diverse skills and commitment to creating impactful solutions. He currently works at [https: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0//ceibal.edu.uy/en/ Ceibal], 0an organization dedicated to promoting digital inclusion in Uruguayan public education, 0where he leads research and development initiatives in educational technology. He is particularly interested in the applications of artificial intelligence (AI); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brian in education and is a hardworking, charismatic actively involved in researching and proactive person. During his free time he likes developing new approaches to play the guitar teaching and make craft beer learning with his friendsAI. </span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-7854218d-7fff-6cb9-7b4a-1b775c7f35dc"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0Prior to Ceibal, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nowadays, he works Brian excelled as an Innovation Manager<at [https:/span> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at</span> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">innovationlab.1950labs.com/ Innovation Lab ] (by 1950Labs)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color[https: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a</span> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">boutique</span> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">software<1950labs.com/span> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 01950Labs]); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">company specialized in offering</span> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">singular</span> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and innovative solutions to</span> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">clients</span> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">driving internal and institutions</span> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">challengesexternal innovation projects. He</span> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">also</span> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">work</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">s</span> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">honed his teaching skills as an assistant professor at [[School:Category:Universidad Católica del Uruguay|Universidad Católica del Uruguay]] (UCU), where he helps on coding practices of ASSEMBLER language focused on shared his expertise in assembler programming for CISC and RISC microprocessors.</span></span>
A notable achievement in Brian's career is his work on "[https://www.thehyproject.com/ The Hy Project]", a groundbreaking initiative that developed a system for electric and hybrid vehicles to emit specific sound frequencies that enhance plant growth. This project gained international recognition, earning a nomination for Fast Company's "[https://www.fastcompany.com/90492123/world-changing-ideas-awards-2020-creativity-finalists-and-honorable-mentions World Changing Ideas]" award and becoming a finalist in the [https://www.sxsw.com/interactive/2020/innovation-awards-finalists-announced-for-sxsw-2020/ Smart Cities, Transportation & Logistics category at the South by Southwest (SXSW)] festival in Austin, Texas.
<span id="docs-internal-guid-7854218d-7fff-6cb9-7b4a-1b775c7f35dc"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0Beyond his professional endeavors, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brian worked on is a worldwide product called "[https://wwwlifelong learner with diverse interests.thehyproject.com/ The Hy Project]" where he developed the first prototype He enjoys playing guitar, crafting his own beer, and early solution to the embebbed system attached to carscontinually expanding his knowledge in areas like User Experience Research (UXR). This Brian is a system that provides also an specific frecuency ranged soundavid board sport enthusiast, with over 20 years of experience (started skating at 7) riding skateboards, which helps plants growthsurfboards, to electric and hybrid vehiclesmore recently, snowboards. The Hy Project was nominated as <br />[[httpsFile://wwwBrian Lorenzo Skateboarding.jpg|center|thumb|900x900px|My mom's dream was for me to rule the skatepark.fastcompanyNow I build cool tech.com/90492123/world-changing-ideas-awards-2020-creativity-finalists-and-honorable-mentions World Changing Idea] by [https://www.fastcompany.com/90431247/these-electric-cars-will-project-a-sound-that-makes-plants-happy Fast Companyclose enough, right? Love you, Ma!] and was [https://www.sxsw.com/interactive/2020/innovation-awards-finalists-announced-for-sxsw-2020/ finalist in the Sillicon Valley SXSW Festival] in the category of innovation in Smart Cities, Transportation & Logistics.</span><br /span>
== '''Brian The UIFellow''' ==
[[File:BrianLorenzoCantinaton.jpg|left|thumb|400x400px|Group picture at the end of Cantinatón: a hackathon to identify and create new innovative solutions to the university cafeteria, co-facilitated by the [[School:Universidad Católica del Uruguay|2018's fall cohort]] and their recently acquired Design Thinking expertise]]
As a UIF Fellow, Brian has actively contributed to the organization of "LOOP: Semana de la Innovación", a Latin America Regional UIF Meetup, in [https://universityinnovationfellows.org/loop-2018/ 2018] (as a fellow trainee) and [https://www.flickr.com/photos/uifellows/albums/72157711254337253/ 2019], fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange among local and international participants. <blockquote>👉[https://universityinnovationfellows.org/loop-2018/ Leticia wrote about it] 👈</blockquote>Brian's commitment to the program extended well beyond his own cohort. He has been actively involved in mentoring subsequent generations of UIF students at Universidad Católica del Uruguay, counseling them through the application process, helping them develop their project ideas, and sharing his own experiences to help them succeed. His ongoing involvement with the UIF program highlights Brian's commitment to nurturing a more innovative and student-centered approach to higher education. He is currently working in co-designing, alongside other fellows and Ithaka, the innovation center of the university, a pre-training course for the newest fall 2024 UCU cohort.
<span id="docs-internal-guid-7854218d-7fff-6cb9-7b4a-1b775c7f35dc"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On August 2018 and 2019 he participated in “LOOP: Semana de la Innovación” as part of the organization staff along with his UIF candidates partners, other UIF and several international participants.</span></span>
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== '''AI in Education''' ==
[[File:Brian Lorenzo Marco Referencial IA.png|left|thumb|251x251px|A pedagogical framework to teach Artificial Intelligence from an Uruguayan experience (ISBN: 978-9915-9578-4-5)]]
Brian is passionate about making AI accessible and beneficial in educational settings. He believes in the transformative potential of AI to create more engaging, personalized, and effective learning experiences. His current work in this field includes:
* '''Co-authoring the "[https://pensamientocomputacional.ceibal.edu.uy/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Marco-referencial-IA.pdf Marco referencial para la enseñanza de la inteligencia artificial]"''': This framework, developed in collaboration with other experts, provides guidance for integrating AI concepts and skills into K-12 education in Uruguay.
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* '''Researching evaluation metrics for LLM-based solutions''': Brian is currently researching how to effectively measure the impact and effectiveness of educational tools and platforms powered by large language models, focusing in security breaches, cognitive bias and toxicity prevention.
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* '''Developing practical resources for educators''': He is currently co-writing a follow-up book to the "Marco referencial" that will provide teachers and students with hands-on activities, lesson plans, and other resources to facilitate the integration of AI into various subjects and learning environments.
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