Morgan Fabian
Morgan is a creative, technologist, and toolmaker from California. She has led a diverse set of projects and teams over the last decade that range in topics from artificial intelligence and generative design to urban art installations and digital illustration.Morgan has always been passionate about the built environment and its ability to bring vibrancy to our communities.Right now, she is hard at work on a a new AI product, purpose built for housing developers, with the brilliant team at Outer Labs.
Morgan has presented her work numerous times over the years, via main stage keynotes, conferences, and insider looks.
In her free time, she makes stuff.
Her first digital project is Figures: a publication of illustrated essays.
Words help us structure complicated thoughts. Drawings make complicated thoughts easier to understand.
more stuff
technical-ish
9 years developing software, leading both speculative projects and timely products at Autodesk & Outer Labs
6 years managing teams -- from product managers to research scientists to software engineers to interns
led the vision and development of artificial intelligence for Autodesk's Fusion 360, successfully maturing several research prototypes into commercial technology
two U.S. patents: Machine Learning Techniques for Generating Three-Dimensional Objects (2022) and Shape-Based Techniques for Exploring Design Spaces (2020)
workshop design for high school students from Girls Who Code & Hidden Genius Project on multidisciplinary product design. for 3 years, taught students learn how to 3D model, 3D print, design and wire circuits, and program Arduinos
B.S. in industrial engineering and operations research at UC Berkeley. go bears.
creative-ish
grant recipient from the Centre for Effective Altruism to write explanations on how to reason about the world's most pressing problems and how we solve them
amateur artist with a love for a variety of mediums and forms: charcoal, pens, acrylics, oils - watercolors while traveling
burning man theme camp lead and creator of Magic Tree House, a two story micro-bar within the Golden Guy Alley village, inspired by Golden Gai in Tokyo
advisor for Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, one of 10 students selected to advise on culture and curriculum before doors opened in fall of 2015
urban art installation for Better Market Street: Maps of San Francisco was a playful and interactive sculpture that enabled people to connect with SF and each other through a moving mosaic of historic, data-rich, and artistic maps. photos below:
