Scholar Profile

Joshua Pereira

Artificial Intelligence

Biography

Joshua graduated from MIT in 2025 with an S.B. in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making. He is pursuing a Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) through MIT’s Department of EECS 6A Industrial Program. Since 2023, he has worked at Applied Invention as a Software and Data Engineer, developing metagenomics and computer-vision solutions for autonomous greenhouse cultivation systems. Joshua brings a strong multidisciplinary background. His work spans the development of nanoparticle drug-delivery devices for chemotherapeutics at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research to publishing on a novel large-language modeling framework for the human genome with MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems. He has authored several manuscripts, including work on prompt optimization for natural-language processing and on modeling statewide vaccination responses using linear programming. Driven by a commitment to digital governance shaped by his upbringing as a first-generation American from a working-class family in Los Angeles, Joshua focuses on translating advances in machine learning into tangible public-service outcomes. In 2020, he re-founded the Los Angeles chapter of the Surfrider Foundation’s Blue Water Task Force, strengthening coastal water-quality monitoring through scalable operations and improved data collection. Building on his work five years later, Joshua most recently developed a citywide water-quality nowcasting model that closes the 24-hour reporting gap between sample collection and public advisories, enabling more timely public-health guidance for coastal recreation in Los Angeles.

High school:  Granada Hills Charter High School

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