About
Lemuel R. Rios Santiago is a fifth-year undergraduate student pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering and a Curricular Sequence in International Relations at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. At UPRM, he has focused his research on disaster management & mitigation, community development, integrated human design through aerospace, human factors & ergonomics applied to engineering projects, and bio-pharmacy.
Lemuel is particularly interested in the role that human factors and ergonomics play in having an optimized project that considers the human aspect of it through aerospace areas of research using ergonomic risk assessment methods. He also has a growing interest in disaster management & resilience and how such are essential for developing communities after a natural disaster.
As one of the recipients of the Engineering PEARLS (Program for Engineering Access, Retention, and LIATS Success) National Science Foundation Scholar (2018-2021), Lemuel has engaged as a student leader through Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) mentoring to small groups of undergraduate students in the Industrial Engineering department to facilitate effective collaborative learning during the academic year 2020-2021. Furthermore, as one of the recipients of NASA’s MUREP (Minority University Research and Education Project) Fall 2020 Internship Stipend, he has engaged as a former Kennedy Space Center Intern through the development of a VBA tool for document term search, which aims to help users search for words through single & multiple capabilities within single & numerous document files through folder & subfolder looping process and outreach of workshops & seminars pertaining NASA related programs; most recently during the fall 2021 term, he served as student representative before the Administrative Board of UPR-Mayaguez and as Undergrad Coop Level 2 student in the AML6 Media Prep division, at Amgen Manufacturing Limited (AML). He is currently serving as Undergraduate Researcher at the Puerto Rico Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (PR-LSAMP) program under the Applied Optimization Group at UPRM focusing on Health Informatics Research.
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Available for:
Human Factors Research
Project Management
Public Speaking
Data Analyses
FAVORITE QUOTE
"Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions."
- Mark Twain
RECENT PROJECT
Time-delayed correlation of two-time series through class-based forecasting: the Covid-19 case in Puerto Rico
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wnqcrxfFMoeOZJNOHBpCAQLXjqmGJJId/view
Recommendations
"Lemuel was an outstanding student at CROEM. You have great gifts and talents. He is a leader, honest and with beautiful qualities that make him a very special being." -Carmen Magaly (high-school academic counselor)
"Lemuel is an outstanding Professional. He Is passionate about his work and can see the applications towards any field of study. His holistic tendencies help him to develop and work in groundbreaking projects. As an individual, he is respectful, understanding, and proactive. It has been a pleasure to see him grow from High School up until University in all of his projects as well as working with him." -Fabian Segarra (high-school & college colleague)
"Lemuel is an excellent leader and innovator. Working with Lemuel was an overall great experience. He communicates his ideas in an orderly fashion and is always open to suggestions. Having a proactive team member like him will be of benefit to any organization seeking an organized and well structured individual with great morals and respect for others." -Gustavo Maldonado (former director of operations at bioX)
"Lemuel was a standout member of the UPR-Mayaguez MEDLIFE Chapter's Service Learning Trip to Tena, Ecuador in December 2019. During this trip, Lemuel improved upon his already excellent international relations skills by communicating positively with patients - many of whom have received little to no medical care before. Using his strong interpersonal skills, he was able to make patients feel comfortable and well taken care of. Lemuel also showed an impressive determination to learn about the communities that MEDLIFE works with. His passion for education was emulated by his interest in rural medicine, as well as the socioeconomic history of Ecuador and how that related to patients' health. Lemuel also gained valuable tactical skills that are applicable to different medically related fields, such as taking patients' temperatures, height, weight, blood pressure, and body mass index. Furthermore, he gained experience shadowing MEDLIFE's local doctors who were able to explain the various region-specific health problems faced by the communities that MEDLIFE visited. Lemuel's desire to learn and help those in need was extremely apparent during his time volunteering with MEDLIFE, and we appreciate his dedication to the MEDLIFE Movement."
-Emma Blystone (MEDLIFE Movement international associate)
"Lemuel R. Ríos Santiago was a student at CROEM. This school is a boarding school that selects the best performance of students in Science and Math. He is an excellent, responsible, motivated person and also had high potential as a student in my Physics, Research, and Technology Principles. He is always in the best 10% of my classes doing all extra tasks when necessary, and still having high performance, going over any obstacle to answering any difficult problem given. I am sure he will complete any responsibility in the best skillful way he can. Lemuel is acutely aware of the opportunity he has, and each day takes any occasion as a unique possibility to grow. He is looking for any event of intellectual and social development. He was involved in community projects like ADRA PR in which he was giving food, clothes, and help for people in need. Also, he worked in the Albergue Villa Michelle, taking care of dogs and cats, while being adopted. He won outstanding participation and second place in the movie festival competition organized by the Department of Education. He won second place in the NASA MgUE SLED competition. He did a research project in which he worked with the vulnerability of people near flood areas in Rincón. He won semifinalists in the JSHS symposium held by Army, Airforce, and Navy. His work will assist people in looking for getting help when needed. He is a member of the following students' organizations: In SCI (society of Engineering Clubs) (vocal), FFA, Math Club, and football team (captain). As part of his work in SCI, Lemuel is proposing NASA CELERE in which he is designing an experiment to measure the capillary effect of liquids while in microgravity. He is involved very actively in all organizations as well in science, developing new ideas for astronauts and how the body, in this case, the blood system, will function in space thru capillary. His goal is to continue studying at University planning to finish his bachelor's degree and may proceed further. In class Lemuel had demonstrated to have the capacity to perform his work in the best skillful way. His leadership and exemplary behavior in the class known between his peers, which accepts him very well. He is one of the positive leaders that our future community will need. He also makes the right decisions when necessary, either in class, extracurricular activities, or outside of class. He has a high self-concept because he thinks and evaluates positively about himself. He is aware of one and has a high concept of himself. He has a high self-awareness demonstrated by the capacity for introspection and the ability to reconcile oneself as an individual separate from the environment and other individuals. His kindness, amiability, and good manners characterize his behavior in class and surroundings. He was also in the honors roll of the school. The best reason for me to recommend is his intelligence, ethics, participation, and excellent standard test performance."
-Elba Sepulveda (high-school Physics teacher & research mentor)
"Lemuel is a completely hardworking and innovative leader. The versatility and quality of his academic and professional work is really surprising, he has been a great contribution to bioX." -Carlos Amaury (former president at bioX)