Two founders. One laboratory.

Co-founder, majority shareholder, and operating leader of Axion Deep Labs. Crystal directs corporate governance, research infrastructure, and institutional partnerships across the entire portfolio of products and research programs.

Adjunct Professor in the NMSU Engineering Department, she provides the laboratory with institutional access to the NMSU Discovery high-performance computing cluster, a strategic resource powering the PERSIST research program and future experimental work.

Serves as Senior Personnel on the NSF SBIR-track PERSIST program, responsible for machine learning pipeline operations and data analysis oversight.

Co-founder and Principal Investigator at Axion Deep Labs. Joshua leads research direction, full-stack product engineering, and grant strategy across the laboratory's commercial and research programs.

Principal Investigator on PERSIST, an NSF SBIR-track research program investigating whether the topology of a neural network's loss landscape predicts catastrophic forgetting. Phase I-A results submitted to CoLLAs 2026.

Ships production software across six product lines spanning SaaS, AI tooling, cybersecurity, and quantum computing education. Hands-on with PyTorch, FastAPI, Next.js, and distributed training on university HPC clusters.