Flavio Cordari

PhD researcher at Sapienza University of Rome, working on Earth observation and machine learning for forests, wildfires and land change. I also build AI-powered tools and ship them as working software.

Earth observation & ML

Sardinia forest diebackRanks forest stands to inspect after the 2024 drought, using Sentinel-2 time series, geospatial foundation models and an MCP agent. Forest Change FrameworkModular Python framework for forest change detection and ML dataset generation from satellite imagery. Burnt-area detectionAirflow and SNAP workflow that fuses Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 optical data to map burnt areas.

AI & software

chatlensPrivate, fully local analysis of WhatsApp chats with Ollama. models3d-aiClaude and Meshy pipeline that turns a text idea into a print-ready 3D model. reel-animExplainer Reels generated from Markdown with Manim and ffmpeg.

Talks

Large Language Models: The Digital Grimoires of the 21st CenturyFrom NLP basics to attention and the transformer. March 2025.

Tools