加州大学伯克利分校信息工程学院导师教师师资介绍简介-Joshua Blumenstock

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Joshua Blumenstock

Associate Professor
Alumni (PhD 2012)



josh@ischool.berkeley.edu

207C South Hall

currently on leave

jblumenstock.com

@jblumenstock



Biography

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Joshua Blumenstock is a Chancellor’s Associate Professor at the U.C. Berkeley School of Information and the Goldman School of Public Policy. He is the Director of the Data-Intensive Development Lab and the co-Director of the Center for Effective Global Action. Blumenstock does research at the intersection of machine learning and empirical economics, and focuses on using novel data and methods to understand the causes and consequences of global poverty, and to improve the lives of disadvantaged people around the world. He has a Ph.D. in Information Science and a M.A. in Economics from U.C. Berkeley, and Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Physics from Wesleyan University. He is a recipient of awards including the NSF CAREER award, the Intel Faculty Early Career Honor, and the U.C. Berkeley Chancellor's Award for Public Service. His work has appeared in general interest journals including?Science,?Nature, and?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, as well as top economics journals (e.g., the?American Economic Review) and computer science conferences (e.g.,?ICML, KDD, AAAI, WWW, CHI).