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Dr. Sam Bourgault is a Princeton Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow  




photo by Zheng Zhang

Dr. Sam Bourgault
sam.bourgault@princeton.edu
farwest1138
https://sambourgault.com

 Sam Bourgault (she/they) earned her Ph.D. in the Media Arts and Technology program at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2025. She also holds a Master of Science from UCSB (2022), a Bachelor’s in Computation Arts from Concordia University (2019), and a Bachelor’s in Physics Engineering from Polytechnique Montreal (2015). Through collaboration with domain experts and research-creation, she develops digital fabrication and robotic systems to support and extend art and craft practices.

Her work has been published in conferences and journals such as ACM CHI, ACM UIST, ACM DIS, IEEE VL/HCC, and Elsevier’s Journal of Computer Languages.

Her work has also been exhibited at events like the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Montreal MUTEK Festival, the IEEE-ICRA-X Robotic Program, and Ars Electronica, among other venues.

She is one of the recipients of the Presidential Postdoc Fellowship from Princeton University in 2025 Research:


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