Deep physics. Frontier AI.
Real products.

A natural-hazard scientist, geospatial engineer, and agentic-AI builder — thirteen years turning physics, satellites, and messy real-world data into products people rely on.

What I'm strong at

Natural-hazard modeling

Flood, climate, and cyber risk — physics simulators to production ML.
2markets — Japan & the US — served by flood prediction ML I built
260K+synthetic storms rastered for a global climate flood & wildfire product
5.3Macres — a Gulf state's first coastwide flood model, 2M+ residents

Geospatial intelligence

Planet-scale raster + vector pipelines that stay fast and cheap.
100+ TBglobal rasters processed, no GPU clusters
40 yrsof flood extents mined from satellites (U-Net)
PB-scalecolumnar queries — H3 · STAC · Zarr · DuckDB

Agentic AI

Agents that do real work: modeling, ETL, and product operations.
+15%AUC/F1 from an agentic ML framework, 2M+ entities
1M+records LLM-cleaned at >99% consistency
2live products operated by Claude Code routines

Data science

Full lifecycle — problem scoping to Fortune 100 adoption.
2M+entities scored by cyber-risk models I built end to end
$5MSeries A underpinned by the flood ML pipeline I scaled
6person science team led as DS manager

Product engineering

Solo full-stack: data pipeline to map UI to growth.
3production products built & run solo
daysfrom idea to shipped MVP with agents
1,500+combined subscribers, growing organically

Independent products

What I build and run solo, nights and weekends — the part of my work you can click. The day-job track record (Fortune 100 risk models, climate platforms, team leadership) is in Background below.

For safety

flood.live

Real-time US flood conditions at a glance — NOAA, FEMA, and MRMS feeds fused live, with email alerts when your river starts rising.

12,000+NOAA river & coastal gauges, refreshed live
1,000+alert subscribers
10K+monthly visitors
Open the map ↗
For families

funradar.app

Kids' activities across 15 US metros on one map — Bay Area in hand-curated depth, playgrounds to U-Pick farms to this weekend's events.

50,000+family places & events mapped
15metros live, weekly event pipelines
10K+weekly visits · EN / 中文
Open the map ↗
For AI agents

PlaceRoot

Open-source MCP server grounding AI agents in Overture Maps — keyless, self-hostable, answers instead of data dumps.

20spatial tools, geocoding to isochrones
0API keys required
≤2Ktokens per answer, by design
placeroot.dev ↗

Background

The short version

AI engineer · geospatial ML · earth & ocean sciences

From modeling coastal oceans to shipping risk models adopted by Fortune 100 companies — then compressing the whole stack into solo-built products operated by AI agents.

Claude Code & MCP Agentic workflows PyTorch Physics-informed ML Python TypeScript / React MapLibre Cloudflare Workers + D1 DuckDB PySpark ADCIRC · HEC-RAS · SFINCS
Now
Founder · flood.live + funradar.app + PlaceRoot
Three live products, designed, built, and operated solo with Claude Code agents.
Day job
Lead Data Scientist · public enterprise-software company
Agentic ML for cyber risk — frequency & loss models across 2M+ entities.
Before
Principal Scientist, ML/AI · climate-risk analytics
Led R&D for a global climate flood & wildfire product; 100+ TB raster pipelines, no GPU clusters.
Before
Research Scientist & Tech Lead · applied coastal research
A Gulf state's first coastwide flood modeling system — 5.3M acres, 2M+ residents.
5 yrs
Founding Data Scientist → DS Manager · disaster-resilience startup
Flood prediction ML powering expansion into Japan & the US; led a 6-person science team.
Origin
Ph.D., Earth & Ocean Sciences
Where the maps started.