Sam Pottinger

Senior Research Data Scientist / Software Engineer
Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment at Berkeley
Core Team
Sam Pottinger

Sam Pottinger is a Senior Research Data Scientist / Software Engineer at the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science and Environment (DSE). He is interested in creating digital spaces that foster collaboration and enable thinking within complex problems. This work often involves crafting digital tools at the intersection of participatory design, artificial intelligence, information design (data visualization), software engineering, and game design.

Sam has worked for small organizations including LabJack (DAQ / IoT) and Plenty (agriculture) as well as larger companies such as IDEO, Google, and Apple. He was most recently the Director of Data and Digital Technologies at the synthetic biology sustainable food startup EVERY. In addition to industry, he is a contributor to the open source Processing project where he previously helped the community reach its fourth major version and still provides ongoing work on language engineering. Other open source contributions available on his GitHub.

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Sather Gate

Meet the new team

We are thrilled to welcome the team that will be driving our programs, data, and engineering at the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science and Environment (DSE)!
 

Each individual brings great talent, expertise and a passion for our mission. We are excited to have them onboard to design and implement open tools and data critical to improving the wellbeing of our planet and our communities.
 

As we move forward, we will work openly and share new findings, prototypes, and more, so stay tuned!
 

May 29, 2023