Scholar Profile

Joshua Pereira

Artificial Intelligence

Biography

Joshua graduated from MIT in 2025 with a Bachelor’s in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making. Since 2023, he has worked at Applied Invention as a software and data engineer, developing scalable analytics pipelines and machine-learning solutions for next-generation greenhouse systems. Today, he is an MIT EECS 6A Industrial Program student enrolled in the Master of Engineering program. With a strong multidisciplinary background, Joshua has tackled projects ranging from lipid nanoparticle drug-delivery devices at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research to high-dimensional embedding analysis of human genomic features at MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems. He has also authored several manuscripts—most notably on semi-continuous prompt optimization for natural-language processing tasks and on the linear optimization of statewide vaccination responses using JuMP and Gurobi. In 2020, Joshua refounded the Surfrider Foundation’s Blue Water Task Force—originally based at Santa Monica High School—designing and implementing COVID-compliant training, sampling, and data-delivery protocols to sustain coastal water-quality monitoring. Passionate about data-informed governance, Joshua is working to translate his computational expertise into meaningful public-service initiatives in Los Angeles.

High school:  Granada Hills Charter High School

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