Gates Foundation funds research in the Philippines
Gates Foundation funds research in the Philippines August 1, 2016 Dr. Blumenstock and PhD student Niall Keleher have received a grant from the Gates Foundation to study the impact of first-time mobile phone use on households in rural Philippines. The... Read More →
National Science Foundation grant for “Algorithms in the Field”
National Science Foundation grant for “Algorithms in the Field” September 20, 2016 Dr. Blumenstock and Sham Kakade (UW) have received support from the National Science Foundation for their project, “Spectral Methods in the Field: New Tools for Discovering Latent... Read More →
Blumenstock to give keynote at SocInfo
Blumenstock to give keynote at SocInfo November 14, 2016 Dr. Blumenstock will give a keynote address at the 8th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2016) in Seattle.
New research published in journal Science
Dr. Blumenstock’s article, “Fighting Poverty with Data,” was published in this week’s issue of Science magazine. Abstract Policy-makers in the world’s poorest countries are often forced to make decisions based on limited data. Consider Angola, which recently conducted its first... Read More →
New paper published at KDD
Dr. Blumenstock and PhD student Raza Khan’s paper, “Predictors without Borders: Behavioral Modeling of Product Adoption in Three Developing Countries,” was published in the 22nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, one of the main academic outlets... Read More →