Gary Lum

Many thanks to Google Cloud Platform for providing the lab with a compute award!

We received an Amazon Machine Learning Research Award for our work on Welfare-Sensitive Machine Learning.

Lab Director Joshua Blumenstock was selected to receive the Chancellor’s Award for Public Service. This award recognizes faculty members for research that addresses critical issues affecting our local, state, national, or global communities.

PhD student Raza Khan and Lab director Joshua Blumenstock had a paper accepted at AAAI: Khan, MR, and Blumenstock, JE (2019). Multi-CGN: Graph Convolutional Networks for Multi-View Networks, with Applications to Global Poverty, The Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2019), Honolulu, HI... Read More →

Prof. Blumenstock’s paper, The strength of long-range ties in population-scale social networks, was published in the current issue of Science.

Prof. Blumenstock will be giving a keynote address at the NeurIPS workshop on Machine Learning for the Developing World (ML4D) in Montreal.

Why Do Defaults Affect Behavior? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan (by Joshua Blumenstock, Michael Callen, and Tarek Ghani) was published in the American Economic Review.

Dr. Blumenstock’s article, “Don’t forget people in the use of big data for development,” was published in the journal Nature

Prof. Blumenstock was named as a 2018 Hellman Fellow for his project, “Evaluating Community Cellular Networks: How Does Mobile Connectivity Affect Isolated Communities?”

Dr. Blumenstock’s paper, “Estimating Economic Characteristics with Phone Data“, was published in the American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings