Dr. Michael Flaxman
Data Science Practice Lead
Technology, Data Science
San Francisco, CA, USA
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Dr. Michael Flaxman is OmniSci’s Spatial Data Science Practice Lead. At OmniSci, Dr. Flaxman’s team is focused on the combination of geographic analysis with machine learning, or “geoML.” He has served on the faculties of MIT, Harvard and the University of Oregon. Dr. Flaxman has participated in GIS projects in 17 countries. He has been a Fulbright fellow, and served as an advisor to the Interamerican Development Bank, the World Bank and the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Flaxman previously served as industry manager for Architecture, Engineering and Construction at ESRI, the world’s largest developer of GIS technology. Dr. Flaxman received his doctorate in design from Harvard University in 2001 and holds a master’s in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Oregon and a bachelor’s in biology from Reed College.
Michael Flaxman notes in his LinkedIn profile: I’m currently the VP of Product at HeavyAI, having previously served as Product Manager and led the Spatial Data Science practice in Professional Services. I have spent the last 20 years working in spatial environmental planning. Prior to HeavyAI, I founded Geodesign Technolgoies, Inc and cofounded GeoAdaptive LLC, two startups applying spatial analysis technologies to planning. Before startup life, I was a professor of planning at MIT and Industry Manager at ESRI.
My main professional goal is to develop spatial tools leveraging geoML to incorporate historic, current and modeled future scenario information. These can be applied across many domains, ultimately to bring the benefits of sustainable environmental planning to a much wider global audience.
