Scholar Profile

Joshua Pereira

Artificial Intelligence

Biography

Joshua Pereira is a Software and Data Engineer at Applied Invention, where he builds the AI systems behind autonomous greenhouse agriculture: computer-vision and metagenomics pipelines that monitor living crops, and the agentic infrastructure that ties them together. His work sits at the frontier of applied AI — Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, and autonomous agents that query databases, run GPU workloads, and turn live sensor data into operational decisions. He also leads workshops training engineers to build with AI agents.

Joshua earned his S.B. in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making (2025) and his Master of Engineering in EECS (2026) at MIT, where his research on large language models for the human genome was published at NeurIPS and he developed nanoparticle drug-delivery devices for chemotherapeutics at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.

A first-generation Angeleno, Joshua brings the same toolkit to public service: he re-founded the Los Angeles chapter of Surfrider's Blue Water Task Force and developed a citywide water-quality nowcasting model that closes the 24-hour gap between ocean sampling and public-health advisories.

High school:  Granada Hills Charter High School

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