NASA
L'SPACE MCA · Team 19: Ad Astra
2026
Lead Systems Engineer on an 18-member MCA team: autonomous lunar permanently shadowed region volatile-prospecting rover at Nobile Rim 2.
Computer Science · USC ViterbiLos Angeles, CA
Joshua Terranova
USC computer science student: NASA lunar systems work, Field Robotics Lab autonomy, ML benchmarks, and shipped products.
About
I am a USC computer science student (expected graduation 05/2028) working on visual robotics evaluation, serving as Lead Systems Engineer on NASA L'SPACE MCA Team 19 and NPWEE Team 10, and leading autonomy software for University Rover Challenge 2026.
- Education
- USC Viterbi School of Engineering
- Computer Science · strong academic record
- Focus
- AI/ML, scientific computing, full-stack web, aerospace-adjacent tooling, and shipping production-quality software.
Highlights
NASA L'SPACE engineering, USC labs, and independent projects drawn from the curriculum vitae.
NASA
L'SPACE NPWEE · Team 10: Forged in Orbit
2025
Lead Systems Engineer on a 12-member NPWEE team: cold-welding repair proposal and lead-authored L-MAP-FI pathfinding study.
Personal product
KumonScan · Center Attendance
2026–Present
Desk name check-in with Math/Reading/Both, overtime timers, absences, CSV reports; QR kiosk still available.
Personal project
SpaAIder · Agentic Runtime
2025–Present
Local-first multi-agent runtime with persistent cross-session memory, heterogeneous clients, and Ollama-first sovereign inference.
Personal project
Pneumonia Detection from Chest X-Rays
2025–2026
TensorFlow pipeline, EfficientNetV2B0 transfer learning, 83% validation accuracy on 368 held-out chest radiographs.
Personal project
LLM-V1.0 · Small-Scale Language Model
2025–2026
Designed and trained a ~30M-parameter GPT-style transformer (8 layers, 8 heads, 512-dim embeddings, 8,192-token BPE vocab).
GCSP · Talent / Research
ClinRad-Bench · Clinical ML Evaluation
2026
Prevalence-shift evaluation for pediatric CXR triage: a 12% screening model can miss more cases at 35% surge prevalence unless you sweep thresholds and calibration.
GCSP · Entrepreneurship
BenchHost · Metered Robotics Benchmarking
2026
Metered robotics benchmarking so labs can verify shared run certificates without rebuilding GPU workers and billing from scratch.
GCSP · Multidisciplinary
HotFire-Ledger · Test-Stand Integrity
2026
Sim-only test-stand software: abort profiles encode risk tolerance (profile_b at 380 psi vs default 420 psi), not a single failure point.
GCSP · Multicultural
StandardsLint · Multi-Agency ICD Linter
2026
Multi-agency ICD linter: surface which heritage limit governs an interface before a joint review stalls on polite disagreement.
GCSP · Social Consciousness
LabMap · Research Access OS
2026
Research access tooling: score lab-page legibility and flag cold-email patterns that get ignored before students waste months.
EWB-USA
Engineers Without Borders · USC Chapter
Present
USC chapter member supporting international community engineering projects on sustainable water, sanitation, and infrastructure.
Skills
Languages and tools used in research and product work.
Languages
- Python
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Swift
- C++
- Java
- PostgreSQL
AI & ML
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- Hugging Face
- OpenCV
- scikit-learn
- Weights & Biases
Web & systems
- Next.js
- React
- Node.js
- FastAPI
- Tailwind CSS
- Vercel
Aerospace & design
- NASA
- NumPy
- Fusion 360
- Blender
- AutoCAD
Contact
Email for research collaborations, internships, and technical questions. Links below.
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