Researcher & Engineer — Austin, TX

Igor Eduardo

Published a pharmacovigilance finding 6–44× larger than all prior estimates — solo-built the infrastructure that found it. 8 manuscripts. 2 hackathon wins. 1 exit. 7 years VC. Patent pending.

Published Research

Global Health Data Interoperability Across Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Nature — In Progress

Cross-national harmonization of administrative health data across three countries

Comparative Post-Marketing Pharmacovigilance of Five GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: A Disproportionality Analysis of 412,643 FDA Adverse Event Reports (2004–2024)

Drug Safety — Under Review

PRR 88.9 — 6–44× above all prior published estimates

doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-9818000/v1 Dataset: HuggingFace →

Class-Wide Impaired Gastric Emptying Signal Across Nine GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Agents: Indication-Stratified Pharmacovigilance Analysis of 6,868 Cases in FDA FAERS (2004–2024) with Cross-National Validation

Research Square — Posted

doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-9818062/v1

Hidden in Plain Sight: National Benchmarks for Sepsis Mortality, Dengue Burden, and Antimicrobial Use from 35 Million Hospitalizations in Brazil’s Universal Health System

BMJ Global Health — Under Review

doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-9818082/v1

Record-Breaking Dengue Epidemic in Brazil, 2024: Nationwide Analysis of 10.5 Million Cases and DENV-3 Reemergence

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases — Under Review

doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-9818084/v1

Brazilian-PHI: Benchmarking Checksum-Validated Recognizers for CPF, CRM, CNS, CNPJ, RG, CEP, and Phone in Portuguese Clinical Text

Journal of Biomedical Informatics — Under Peer Review

doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20076543

BM25 and Dense Retrieval Are Complementary for Portuguese Clinical Text: An Empirical Study of Hybrid RAG Across 500 Clinical Queries

Zenodo — Open Access (55 views, 38 downloads)

doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19686739 Dataset: mirage-pt →
What I Built
49,447
lines of code
78
API routes
8
published manuscripts
16
AI modules
2
hackathons won (May 2026)
1
patent pending
3
countries (cross-national)
5
safety architecture layers

Modules: Clinical Chat · Lab Interpretation (52 analytes) · ECG Analysis · Scribe · Quiz Bank · Flashcards · Drug Interactions · Clinical Cases · WhatsApp · CID-10/TUSS

Hackathons
Winner
Antler Codex Hackathon
Agents Track + DeepInvent Science Prize
$250K grant. Built pharmacovigilance protocol platform for therapeutic compounds. 7 surfaces shipped in 72 hours.
Winner
webAI YOLO26 MLX Build Challenge
Enterprise Track
Built SENTINEL — on-device visual triage AI. YOLO26-MLX on Apple Silicon. No cloud. No internet. WiFi off, model running.
Open Source
regulated-ai-audit
Audit framework for AI in regulated domains.
39 tests
github.com →
hybrid-rag-pipeline
BM25 + semantic + RRF retrieval.
28 tests
github.com →
citation-guard
Deterministic citation verification.
26 tests
github.com →
model-router-chain
Complexity-based LLM routing.
18 tests
github.com →
healthcare-ai-playbook
25 techniques for AI in regulated healthcare.
 
github.com →
sentinel-mlx
On-device visual triage AI. YOLO26-MLX on Apple Silicon.
 
github.com →
brazilian-phi
First PII detection benchmark for Brazilian clinical text.
 
github.com →
Articles
01 We Won the Antler Codex Hackathon and the DeepInvent Science Prize. Here’s What We Built.
02 WiFi Off. Model Running. We Won the webAI YOLO26 Enterprise Track.
03 RAG Engineering in Practice: What Nobody Tells You
04 RAG Is Not a Search Problem
05 How I Solved 23% of RAG Hallucinations
06 LLM Routing: Why One Model Is Never Enough
07 Healthcare AI Compliance: Building for Regulated Markets
08 Why I Left Venture Capital
09 The Hardest Conversation I Had as a VC
10 I Stopped Chasing the Right Answer
11 What Kodak Taught Me About Position vs Idea
12 What Stanford Design Thinking Actually Taught Me
Stack
Languages TypeScript · Python · SQL · JavaScript
Frontend Next.js · React · Tailwind
Backend Node.js · PostgreSQL · pgvector · Redis
AI / ML RAG · LLM routing · embeddings · rerankers · safety architectures
Infra Docker · AWS · Vercel
Experience
2026 – Present
Independent Researcher & Engineer
Austin, TX

8 published manuscripts. Patent pending. 2 hackathons won (Antler Codex + webAI YOLO26). Cross-national pharmacovigilance research across 3 countries. OHDSI community member.

2024 – Present
Applied AI Research
San Diego, CA → Austin, TX

Built clinical AI research system solo. Published peer-reviewed research. 5 open-source repos. 100+ tests. Academic programs at UC San Diego and Inter-American University.

2018 – 2020
Founder & CEO
Kubrick (acquired)

Influencer marketing platform. 6 engineers. Customers included Uber, Airbnb, Spotify. Technology licensed and acquired.

2018 – 2024
Talent Partner
OpenVC / AVIV Partners — Strategy, Operations & Technology

46 companies evaluated. R$1B+ AUM. Technology risk assessment. Mentor: Mauro Muratório (co-founder Microsoft Brazil).

Education
Stanford University
Design Thinking
2019
UC San Diego
International Programs
2024
Inter-American University
Business Administration
2024 – 2025
FMU University
Law (J.D.)
2012 – 2016
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