Michael Green
Senior Technical Product Manager at Optimal Dynamics
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Green is an AI Software Manager and Ph.D. candidate at NYU with 11 years of software engineering experience and four years focused on AI research using tree-search and evolutionary optimization. He leads AI work at OriGen.AI while finishing a dissertation and is first-author on nine AI papers—including a Best Paper Award at the Foundations of Digital Games—and has contributed to another ten publications. His background spans product-facing engineering at multinational firms, founding a small game studio, and building practical tooling from smart-home integrations to automated playtesting systems. Michael combines rigorous academic research with hands-on delivery, regularly turning game-focused research into applied systems for testing, tutorial generation, and procedural content. Outside of work he blends an unusual mix of interests—classics, sailing, and video games—that inform a creative, systems-oriented approach to AI and product design.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at NYU Tandon School of EngineeringBachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Business, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Business at Lehigh University
English, Latin
Github Skills (11)
minecraft10
game-development9
testing5
pdf5
game-engine4
nintendo3
microsoft-azure3
typescript1
javascript1
nodejs1
react1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mcgreentn/mcgreentn.github.io
Jul 2018 - Jun 2026
Contributions:60 pushes, 4 branches in 8 years
mcgreentn/GDMC
Dec 2017 - Oct 2018
This is the framework for the Generative Design in Minecraft Competition
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 10 months
minecraft
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