Michael Segala
Principal at SFL Scientific
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMichael Segala is an AI leader and founder-turned-principal with 12+ years of experience scaling AI teams and delivering mission-critical solutions across healthcare, defense, utilities, and industrial automation. He built SFL Scientific from a three-person startup into a 70+ PhD team delivering 500+ custom AI projects and led its acquisition by Deloitte, where he now runs their onshore AI consulting practice. His technical portfolio spans generative AI, custom LLMs, computer vision, edge AI (notably the OptoAI drone inspection platform), and real-time systems, earning NVIDIA Partner of the Year recognition six times. Trained as a particle physicist, his PhD work at Brown contributed to the Higgs Boson discovery, reflecting a rare combination of deep research rigor and product-focused engineering. He advises PE/VC on AI-driven operational value and routinely shepherds projects from strategy and R&D to deployment at scale.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics at Brown UniversityBachelor's degree Physics and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Physics and Applied Mathematics at University of Rhode Island
Github Skills (15)
lasagne8
python7
chatbot7
conversation7
machine-learning6
chatterbot6
subsequence5
deep-learning4
theano4
scikit-learn3
dtw2
kaggle2
tensorflow2
object-detection2
python-extension1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
msegala/Kaggle-National_Data_Science_Bowl
Feb 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:21 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
machinelliummavericks/chatbot-hibot
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:9 commits in 15 days
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