NCBL

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA

Leonardo Esteban Torres Cerdan

 ABOUT ME

Senior undergraduate student in Bioengineering from University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) in Lima, Peru. Currently joined the Neuromuscular Control and Biomechanics Lab as an international research intern at the University of Alberta.

SUPERVISOR

Dr. Hossein Rouhani

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Robotics and prosthetics

  • AI in healthcare

  • Biomedical signal processing

  • Biomedical image processing

  • Wearable medical technologies

PROJECTS

University of Alberta

    • Currently working on the project called: Design and Fabrication of a Multi-functional Low-cost 3D-printed Myoelectric Deep Sensing Prosthesis for Transradial Amputees. (2022)

University of Engineering and Technology

    • During my B.Sc. thesis at UTEC, I worked on the Design and Fabrication of a Low-cost 3D-printed Myoelectric Prosthesis for Transradial Amputees. (2021)

Le Wagon

    • For the final project presentation of the Data Science Bootcamp, I presented the project Diabetic Retinopathy Classifier. I used different tools such as Vision AI from GCP, FastAPI, Docker, Heroku, and Streamlit. (2021)

Work & Health Clinic

    • During my co-op program, I worked on the research and development department of Work & Health in the implementation of an Automated Triage Module. My main tasks were on the backend development using python, signal processing, image processing, and machine learning. (2021)

AWARDS

  • Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) scholarship funded by the Government of Canada (2022)

  • Le Wagon Data Science Bootcamp scholarship (2021)

  • Research Senior Provost scholarship for undergraduate thesis funded by University of Engineering and Technology, Lima, Peru (2021)

  • Santander scholarship for international student exchange program to Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Santa Catarina, Brasil (2019)