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Joshua Feagin
Undergraduate research assistant, HAMMER
Location: Leesburg, VA United States
Joined: Sep 23rd, 2025

About (request update)

Upon enrolling at North Carolina A&T State University I decided to combine my operational mindset with my passion for technology. It was then that I came across the H.O.M.E. program where I was the team leader of AI-powered Pomodoro timer project. This PyTorch project was the reason I won the H.O.M.E. 2025 Emerging Leader Award, and also made me decide that I want to have an engineering career.

I kept on innovating at George Mason University where as Head Researcher, I was dealing with data center cooling. I managed to a 6% efficiency increase by re-engineering thermal paste, a breakthrough for which we are currently filing a patent.

These situations, from managing technical teams to carrying out groundbreaking research, combine the operational abilities and the knowledge of AI

Current Whereabouts:

I like to read books, play golf on the weekends, and work on personal projects.

Life & Professional Aspirations:

I want to become the first in my family to receive my doctorates degree. I also want to start my own family when I'm older and capable.

Education (request update)

North Carolina A&T State University class of 2029

Undergrad Major: Computer Engineering

Claim To Fame:

I am a H.O.M.E(Helping Orient & Mentor Engineers) Scholar, which is a program that takes the top 20 incoming engineers, and you have to be recommended to apply to it. The program takes place the whole summer, going into your freshman year. The program builds the top leaders inside the College of Engineering; so we partake in things like Professional development, Prerequisite courses, Technical Projects, Corporate outreach, and Leadership development over the summer. After the program, we are connected with the past cohorts, who are in all the leadership positions throughout the school, like SGA, all the top organizations/clubs, and research. This program has connected me to many different people and high-class faculty.

Most Memorable Moment:

My most memorable moments so far were the Football home opener and the Aggie Egale Classic. These truly showed how great my HBCU was because of the spirit that we have. The stands were flooded with Blue and Gold. Lastly, I remember during the home opener, there was a beautiful sunset going down behind the big scoreboard.

Experience

I currently work with HAMMER as Undergraduate research assistant
I have 2 years of experience working in the Engineering industry.

Undergraduate research assistant | HAMMER
From September 2025 to Current • 0 year(s)
Conducting paid research for the NSF HAMMER-ERC under Dr. Balu on the development of intelligent, autonomous manufacturing systems that use digital twins to model and accelerate high-performance hybrid processes

Director of Operations | Buttercups Home
From January 2023 to June 2025 • 2 year(s)
Managed and coordinated all valet operations for wedding events, creating seamless guest arrival and departure experiences. Oversaw and coordinated all projects and renovations done around the venue, ensuring quality while managing logistics and budgets. Coordinated Logistics with projects around the venue and valet operations. Managed a $15k budget for venue fix-up projects and $4k budget for all valet operations.

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