Joshua Blumenstock

Joshua Blumenstock is an Associate Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and the Goldman School of Public Policy. He is a Co-Director of the Global Policy Lab and the Co-Director of the Center for Effective Global Action. He does research at the intersection of machine learning and empirical economics, with a focus on how novel data and technology can better address the needs of poor and vulnerable people around the world.

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).

He received his PhD in Information Management and an MA in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.