Who We Are: Rachel Pottinger

2007 Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award – sponsored by Microsoft 

Rachel Pottinger is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia where she is affilated with the Data Management and Mining group. She finished her PhD in the database group in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Washington. Her research centers on (1) how data can be managed in situations where there are multiple databases and (2) how to manage data that is currently not well supported by databases. To that end, she is currently exploring a number of topics, including managing data used in disaster response coordination, managing data in peer-to-peer networks, helping people who are building buildings to better manage their data, schema evolution, and managing metadata (i.e., data about data).