Constenla-Villoslada’s paper published in PNAS
Ph.D. student Susana Constenla-Villoslada is the lead author on a paper just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Congrats Susana! Significance As the number and share of people suffering from food insecurity worldwide has risen over... Read More →
Google.org invests in GOL
GOL is proud to participate in Google.org’s AI Collaborative on Food Security
Lab partners with World Food Programme in Haiti
We are excited to launch a collaboration with the World Food Programme in Haiti, to test innovative approaches to humanitarian response during severe crises. Stay tuned for results!
Lab funded by Jameel Observatory
The Jameel Observatory has generously provided support for the Lab’s research on “Improved Early Warning of Food Insecurity”, led by PhD student Susana Constenla-Villoslada.
Nitin Kohli’s work with UNHCR featured by Harvard OpenDP
Nitin Kohli’s collaboration with UNHCR to share refugee data in a privacy-preserving manner was featured in Harvard OpenDP’s news update. The article describes how advances in privacy-enhancing technologies can expand access to new datasets that could not be previously shared... Read More →
Lab’s research featured in Nature
Research by GOL was featured in the Nature article, “Can AI help beat poverty? Researchers test ways to aid the poorest people.” The article describes the lab’s work with the Government of Togo, and provides some perspective the role of... Read More →
Paper published in Review of Economic Studies
Blumenstock’s work with lab alum Guanghua Chi, and Xu Tan, was published in the Review of Economic Studies. Migration and the Value of Social Networks How do social networks influence the decision to migrate? Prior work suggests two distinct mechanisms... Read More →
FastCompany on lab’s research: These new poverty maps could reshape how we deliver international aid
These new poverty maps could reshape how we deliver international aid Granular geographic targeting, down to 2-by-2-kilometer squares, may help pinpoint the very poorest who need urgent financial assistance—and COVID-19 vaccines. “…The new model—called the Relative Wealth Index—will be freely available... Read More →
Kohli wins Best Doctoral Dissertation Award
Lab member Nitin Kohli was awarded the International iSchools Best Doctoral Dissertation Award for his research on differential privacy. The article describes how Nitin’s work advances both science and privacy by designing algorithms to create “privacy-protective statistics” that can be... Read More →