Raúl Rojas
Boundary operator — building culturally intelligent systems where brains, cultures, and machines meet.
About
Junior at the University of Florida.
CS + Anthropology as one lens, two majors — not two separate tracks.
Founder-CEO with neurotechnology as the long-term direction. Exploring PhD programs at MIT (Media Lab, CSAIL, HST).
Lingua Ignota — a personal cross-domain pattern language formalizing pattern recognition across faces, markets, and EEG signals as one cognitive process.
Affiliations
- MIT Critical Data — AI Researcher · Dr. Leo Anthony Celi · since 2025-10
- Break Through Tech AI Fellowship — Fellow · MIT × Cornell Tech · since 2025-05
- UF BCI Lab — Researcher · Dr. Marvin Andujar
Research
- ShortKit-ML — in review at IEEE Access Unifying ontology bridging anthropological and ML definitions of "shortcut."
- SAKSHI Community-operated accountability framework for health AI.
- Hallucinations Are the Least of Our Concerns Situated knowledge — not reference-checking — is the prerequisite for responsible LLM use in health.
- The Oracle in Your Pocket How LLMs amplify Dunning–Kruger and erode elaborative reasoning.
- AGORA Fully agentic simulation of academic publishing for studying prestige bias, gaming, and herding among AI agents.
Research builds
- Temporal-Decay Graph — Real-time BCI/EEG data structure combining graph topology, exponential edge-weight decay, and lazy pruning.
- EEG Coherence Analysis Pipeline — SciPy-based coherence pipeline on a PhysioNet neuromarketing EEG dataset.
- Lingua Ignota — Cross-domain pattern language formalizing recognition across faces, markets, and EEG signals as one cognitive process.
Builds
- Astra — Autonomous AI agent on a Mixture-of-Experts architecture (Scout / Analyst / Architect tiers).
- Deep Focus Trainer — C-based neurofeedback tool integrating Muse 2 EEG with screen-activity monitoring.
- funQ — Real-time nightlife discovery via social ingestion + sentiment + geolocation.
- Art Beyond Sight — Accessibility app converting visual art to soundscapes.
Experience
- AI/ML Intern · Northrop Grumman Mission Systems · 2025-05 / 2025-08 Trust & reliability protocols for LLMs in defense.
- Project Lead · MIT × Cornell Tech — Swytch AI Studio · 2025-08 / 2025-12 Six-person team. 85% accuracy workforce-forecasting model.
- Multimodal AI / CV Intern · Florida Museum of Natural History · 2024-08 / 2025-05 Mapped archaeological sites from satellite imagery. Presented at the 2025 FUR Conference.
News
- Thu Jan 15 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Invited to AI as a Catalyst at MIT — 227 people from 161 institutions across 22+ countries.
- Wed Dec 10 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — ShortKit-ML submitted to IEEE Access.
- Wed Oct 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Joined MIT Critical Data under Dr. Leo Anthony Celi.
Beyond
- Freedives off Key Biscayne.
- Rowed at Miami Rowing Club (world-level).
- Ran a half marathon.
- Rode a bull twice in one night.
- Trades SLV options on a self-built thesis (COMEX inventory + Shanghai premiums + Chinese export restrictions).
- Excavated pre-Columbian sacrifices at Pampa La Cruz, Peru under Dr. Gabriel Prieto.