Paul Waddell
Founder And CEO at UrbanSim Inc.
United States
Summary
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RockstarPaul Waddell is a serial entrepreneur and global thought leader who has translated decades of academic research in urban analytics and microsimulation into practical SaaS solutions as Founder and CEO of UrbanSim Inc. A former chair and professor at UC Berkeley with over 10,000 citations, he pioneered the UrbanSim modeling methodology now used to plan better futures for more than 80 million people worldwide. He has founded startups (Synthicity, acquired by Autodesk) and led product and research teams at Autodesk and Berkeley Lab, bridging academic rigor with product-driven engineering. His work focuses on behavioral, data-driven modeling of urban dynamics to accelerate housing supply, cut emissions, and improve equitable resilience—often by combining 3D visualization, cloud-native geospatial processing, and ML. Known for turning complex spatial science into usable decision-support platforms, he is as comfortable publishing foundational research as he is shipping production-grade urban simulation software.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (36)
simulation10
san10
visualization10
statistical-models10
modeling10
data-science9
listings9
rental9
python9
census-data9
synthetic8
data-journalism8
mls8
crossword7
geospatial-visualization7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ual/rental-listings
Oct 2016 - Feb 2019
Analyzing and visualizing rental listings data
Contributions:21 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 5 months
analyzingrentalvisualizinglistingsdata-visualization
waddell/urban-informatics-and-visualization
Jul 2016 - Dec 2018
Urban Informatics and Visualization (UC Berkeley CP255)
Contributions:232 commits, 23 PRs, 113 pushes in 2 years 5 months
visualization
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