Highlights

NASA L'SPACE engineering, USC LiraLab, Field Robotics Lab, and independent projects drawn from the curriculum vitae.

Red sandstone buttes under clear sky — lunar-analog desert terrain — Photo by Unsplash on Unsplash

Experience and research from my curriculum vitae. GCSP mindsets on /gcsp map NASA, LiraLab, Field Robotics Lab, ML research, products, MESA, and Engineers Without Borders to five dimensions.

GCSP Portfolio

NASA & Aerospace

Research

Engineering

Projects

GCSP Portfolio

GCSP capstone journals linked from each mindset on /gcsp. Each journal matches one throughline story and graph on the portfolio page.

Pipette tip transferring liquid into a rack of laboratory vials

GCSP · Talent / Research · 2026

ClinRad-Bench · Clinical ML Evaluation

ClinRad-Bench is a GCSP reflective capstone distilled from Pneumonia detection and Module 11. It is not a clinically deployed model. Cohort images come from a synthetic DGP; bootstrap CIs, ECE, permutation tests, and rubric logic are real and pytest-gated.

Server racks with status lights and network cabling in a data center

GCSP · Entrepreneurship · 2026

BenchHost · Metered Robotics Benchmarking

BenchHost is a GCSP reflective capstone distilled from Module 11 and shipped-product lessons from KumonScan and SpaAIder. Integer-cent pricing, idempotency, certificate verification, and lab-scoped metering are real (32 Vitest tests). Simulated GPU workers, live Stripe, and production Postgres are explicitly out of v1 scope.

GCSP · Multidisciplinary · 2026

HotFire-Ledger · Test-Stand Integrity

HotFire-Ledger is a GCSP reflective capstone codifying Rocket Propulsion Laboratory in a sim-only repo. FSM logic, role locks, hash-chain verification, and reduction formulas are real (54 pytest tests). Physical propellant, sensors, and a live test stand are out of CI scope by design.

Hands assembling a heat sink onto a populated circuit board

GCSP · Multicultural · 2026

StandardsLint · Multi-Agency ICD Linter

StandardsLint is a GCSP reflective capstone distilled from NASA L'SPACE MCA and multinational team experience on L'SPACE and University Rover Challenge. The lint engine, conflict explainer, and rubric scoring are real (25 pytest tests). Numeric limits in NASA/ECSS/JAXA/ISRO packs are illustrative unless verbatim from published standards, labeled in README headers.

Engineer measuring rover blueprints on a maker desk with tools and components

GCSP · Social Consciousness · 2026

LabMap · Research Access OS

LabMap is a GCSP reflective capstone distilled from MESA. LegibilityScore validation, compose guardrails, mentor privacy tests, and placement export round-trips are real (13 Vitest + 4 Playwright axe tests). The 9-lab sample index and placement rates are illustrative, not live USC data.

NASA · 2026

L'SPACE MCA · Team 19: Ad Astra

MCA Team 19: Ad Astra formed around a concrete science objective: in-situ volatile characterization in a lunar PSR. I stepped in as sole Lead Systems Engineer.

City lights across North America at night from orbit

NASA · 2025

L'SPACE NPWEE · Team 10: Forged in Orbit

NPWEE Team 10 targeted solid-state in-situ metallurgical reconstitution via autonomous cold welding. As Lead Systems Engineer, every engineer on the team reported to me, including Engineer 1 Justin Schueler, while I coordinated with PM Alexis Gallardo and Chief Scientist Riya Jain.

USC Viterbi · 2026–Present

LiraLab · Undergraduate Researcher

LiraLab develops robot learning methods that use explicit feedback (demonstrations, pairwise comparisons) and more implicit cues so agents can align with human goals and preferences.

Personal project · 2025–2026

Pneumonia Detection from Chest X-Rays

The CV documents 988 chest X-rays split 620/368 train/validation. I built train.py around EfficientNetV2B0, not a from-scratch CNN: data volume does not support training millions of weights cold.

Dense whiteboard of physics formulas and diagrams on black

Personal project · 2025–2026

LLM-V1.0 · Small-Scale Language Model

At ~30M parameters, LLM-V1.0 is intentionally trainable on student hardware. Eight transformer layers with eight heads and 512-dimensional embeddings balance capacity vs. overfit risk on modest corpora.

Engineering

Community and field engineering outside the NASA and GCSP capstone tracks.

Clear water pouring into a glass — purity and access motif

EWB-USA · Present

Engineers Without Borders · USC Chapter

EWB-USA USC chapter work focuses on water, sanitation, and related infrastructure with international community partners.

Laptop, notes, and coffee on a desk during software work

Personal product · 2026–Present

KumonScan · Center Attendance

Paper sheets record who signed in, not who is still in the room or who is overtime. Staff need a live Desk list without walking the floor. Students need a kiosk that works on a shared tablet: large type, one next step, scan.

Personal project · 2025–Present

SpaAIder · Agentic Runtime

SpaAIder deliberately splits concerns: the TypeScript control plane runs runOrchestrator; the Python FastAPI substrate owns SQL tables, episodic store, and /api/v1/memory/recall.