Lorena Etcheverry received her B.Sc., M.Sc. and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Universidad de la República (UdelaR), Uruguay, in 2003, 2010 and 2016, respectively. During her PhD, she worked at the Laboratory for Web & Information Technologies at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. Since 2003, she has been with Instituto de Computación, Universidad de la República, where she is currently an Associate Professor.
Her area of interest is data management, particularly graph databases, knowledge graphs and data analysis systems. More recently, she has been involved in data anonymization and privacy-preserving analytics, specifically in learning analytics.