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Maya Chen is the founder and CEO of Cartograph, a New York–based geospatial data-infrastructure company. She holds a PhD in computer science from MIT and was previously a senior research scientist on Google's Geo team.1

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I'm the founder and CEO of Cartograph, a geospatial data-infrastructure company based in New York. I have a PhD in computer science from MIT (CSAIL, 2018); my dissertation work on learned geospatial indexes was published at VLDB 2018. Before Cartograph I was a senior research scientist on Google's Geo team (2018–2023). I did my undergraduate degree in EECS at UC Berkeley. I live in Brooklyn with my spouse and our two children.

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Source cartograph.io/team/maya-chen changed 6 hours ago. Suggested profile update:
Founder & CEO, Cartograph (New York).
Cartograph builds geospatial data infrastructure.
Cartograph builds geospatial data infrastructure; raised a Series A in 2025.
PhD in Computer Science, MIT (CSAIL).
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