Michael Flaxman
Chief Product Officer at SERIOUS AI
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Flaxman is a product and spatial AI leader who combines two decades of academic and startup experience to build production-grade geospatial tools for environmental planning and industrial scale spatial reasoning. Currently Chief Product Officer at Serious.AI, he previously scaled geospatial AI products as VP of Product at HeavyAI (acquired by NVIDIA) and co-founded applied-geo startups including Tesselo and Geodesign Technologies. His work spans digital twins, remote sensing ML, and novel sensor fusion techniques (e.g., Gaussian splats) for fire-safety and landscape compliance, reflecting a rare blend of hands-on technical design and strategic product leadership. A former MIT planning professor with a Harvard PhD in landscape planning, he focuses on geoML that integrates historic, current and modeled-future scenarios to drive sustainable decision-making at city and infrastructure scale. Not obvious from titles: he moves fluidly between research, coding and customer-facing roles, having personally delivered both scientific funding-winning research and production integrations showcased at NVIDIA GTC and SIGGRAPH.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Community & Regional Planning, Environmental Science, Master of Community & Regional Planning, Environmental Science at University of OregonDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Landscape Planning, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Landscape Planning at Harvard UniversityBA, Biology, BA, Biology at Reed College
English, French
Github Skills (89)
interactive10
sql10
database10
cuda10
visualization10
webmap10
points9
gpu9
machine-learning9
llvm9
tms8
backend8
olap8
geodjango8
django-framework8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
omnisci/community-geo-demos
Jul 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:46 commits, 36 pushes in 9 months
mflaxman10/mapd-core
Jul 2018 - Feb 2025
The MapD Core database
Contributions:6 pushes in 6 years 8 months
databasemapd
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