Highlights

NASA L'SPACE engineering, USC labs, 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, lab work, 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

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.

From the journal: 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

BenchHost · Metered Robotics Benchmarking

2026

Metered robotics benchmarking so labs can verify shared run certificates without rebuilding GPU workers and billing from scratch.

From the journal: 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

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.

From the journal: 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

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.

From the journal: 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

LabMap · Research Access OS

2026

Research access tooling: score lab-page legibility and flag cold-email patterns that get ignored before students waste months.

From the journal: 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

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.

From the journal: 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

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.

From the journal: 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.

Personal project

Pneumonia Detection from Chest X-Rays

2025–2026

TensorFlow pipeline, EfficientNetV2B0 transfer learning, 83% validation accuracy on 368 held-out chest radiographs.

From the journal: 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

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).

From the journal: 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

Engineers Without Borders · USC Chapter

Present

USC chapter member supporting international community engineering projects on sustainable water, sanitation, and infrastructure.

From the journal: 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

KumonScan · Center Attendance

2026–Present

Desk name check-in with Math/Reading/Both, overtime timers, absences, CSV reports; QR kiosk still available.

From the journal: 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

SpaAIder · Agentic Runtime

2025–Present

Local-first multi-agent runtime with persistent cross-session memory, heterogeneous clients, and Ollama-first sovereign inference.

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