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raul escandón

• Built a multi-agent system that extracts diagnoses, insurance and audit data from medical records.
• It audits 1,000+ medical bills a day, cutting labor cost by 60% and doubling manual review coverage.
• Co-authored four clinical AI preprints: SOAT claims, billing review, clinical coding and sepsis severity.

• Found the Colombian PUMA extension had no training data, so I built a PANDORA-based LLM extraction system on AWS to pull records at scale.
• Processed 2,000+ files in parallel at 20 seconds each, turning messy records into usable training data.

• Joined the pre-training data team for a Colombian extension of PUMA Scorethe existing COPD screening model. COPD stands for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a long-term lung condition that makes breathing harder. we extended it to test how well it works on Colombian populations., built with a local hospital and AstraZeneca.
• Prepared the clinical dataset for pre-training with statistical analysis, coherence checks and imputation.

UTEC · advisor: Deyby Huamanchahua

• Built Amaru Maki, a wearable that measures elbow and wrist range of motion for physiotherapy.
• Rebuilt it as Amaru Maki v2 with four IMUs, 60 Hz wireless streaming and quaternion-based joint tracking.
• Co-advised undergraduate theses on exoskeleton joint measurement.

UTEC · advisor: Jimmy Tarrillo

• Built two environmental monitoring stations and the protocol linking an Arduino to a PSoC 5LP.
• Designed real-time humidity and temperature dashboards used to assess conservation conditions.

UTEC · advisor: Christian Flores

• Designed a data-acquisition protocol and a Fourier decomposition method that separated muscle fatigue from non-fatigue states.
• Classified two-, three- and four-class hand movements from sEMG signals using fractal features, self-organizing maps and SVMs.
• Turned the work into two papers: grasping classification at the Brazilian Technology Symposium and sEMG clustering at IEEE EIRCON.

UTEC & Purdue University · advisor: Ruth Canahuire

• Built an autonomous beach-cleaning robot with sensor fusion and a master–slave motor protocol.
• Coordinated the Peruvian team's assignments and deadlines using agile methods and OKRs.

UTEC · advisor: Ruth Canahuire & Joseph Campion

• Built a gecko-inspired climbing robot and designed its active suction-cup mechanism.
• Implemented task-space kinematic control for a delta robot and a minimax checkers opponent.
• Published a first pair of conference papers: the climbing robot at INTERCON 2019 and checkers at INTERCON 2018.