NSF CAREER award announced
Lab director Blumenstock was recently awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER Award (Faculty Early Career Development Program). The grant provides 5 years of funding for a new research agenda focused on “Welfare-Centric Machine Learning”. Read more about the award here.
Forthcoming paper at ICTD 2020
Niall Keleher, Joshua Blumenstock, and co-authors had a paper accepted for publication at the The 11th International ACM/IEEE Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2020), to be held in Guayaquil, Ecuador. ICTD is the premiere venue for... Read More →
3 papers to be presented at Pac-Dev
The lab had three papers accepted for presentation at the 13th annual Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev), one of the major annual conferences dedicated to development economics. Citation details are below: Aiken, E., and Blumenstock, J.E. (2020). Targeting Humanitarian... Read More →
Blumenstock gives opening keynote at OECD
Pro Blumenstock will be giving the opening keynote “New Data Sources and Statistical Capacity: The Potential (and Limits) of Recent Innovations”, at the OECD. The event is part of a UN-organized conference on New Approaches to Capacity Development for Better... Read More →
Papers to be presented at NeurIPS
We’ll be presenting two different papers at NeurIPS Joint Workshop on AI for Social Good and the Workshop on Machine Learning for the Developing World: Rolf, E, Simchowitz, M, Dean, S, Liu, L, Björkegren, D, Hardt, M, and Blumenstock, JE (2019). Balancing Competing... Read More →
Lab welcomes Emily Aiken and Suraj Nair!
Emily Aiken and Suraj Nair recently joined the Data-Intensive Development Lab! Read more about them here.
Google Cloud Compute award
Many thanks to Google Cloud Platform for providing the lab with a compute award!
Lab receives Amazon ML Research Award
We received an Amazon Machine Learning Research Award for our work on Welfare-Sensitive Machine Learning.
Blumenstock awarded Chancellor’s Award for Public Service
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.
Papers accepted at AAAI and WWW
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 →