Garry Sotnik
Executive Director, Researcher, And Founder at Santa Clara University
Los Altos, California, United States
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Top SchoolGarry Sotnik is a sustainability scientist, entrepreneur, and systems thinker with around a decade of experience designing theory of change, strategic planning, and monitoring frameworks that center equity and intergenerational well-being. He founded and leads Complexity Group, where he builds AI-driven planning tools that simulate how individual decisions co-evolve with social-ecological systems to guide resilient policy and community action. His work spans academia and practice—from UN FAO resilience projects in the Middle East to postdoctoral research at the University of Michigan and teaching sustainability and decision-making at Stanford and Santa Clara University. Trained as an economist (MA) and systems scientist (PhD), he blends rigorous quantitative modeling with participatory partnership-building across sectors. Based in Los Altos, he pairs applied research with hands-on community engagement, often translating complex models into pragmatic strategies for nonprofits and local governments.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Systems Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Systems Science at Portland State UniversityMaster's degree Economics, Master's degree Economics at Boston University
Github Skills (23)
evolutionary10
multilevel8
crossword7
harvest7
agriculture6
abaqus6
tla6
cube5
co-simulation5
hydrology5
idris5
agent5
fmi5
multi-agent5
dnd-tools5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SOSIEL/Model-Luhy
Jun 2020 - Jun 2022
A repository for the Luhy model.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years
cubecrosswordfmidataminingtla
LANDIS-II-Foundation/Extension-SOSIEL-Harvest
Mar 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 31 PRs, 73 pushes in 4 years 9 months
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