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Listen to the full interview with Dr. Blumenstock on the most recent Bloomberg Benchmark podcast

Raza Khan and Joshua Blumenstock have had a paper accepted at the NIPS 2017 workshop on Machine Learning for the Developing World: Khan, MR, and Blumenstock, JE (2017).... Read More →

The Okawa Foundation has recognized the value of Dr. Blumenstock’s work by awarding him one of eight Okawa Research Grants.

Three papers by lab members were accepted for publication at the The 9th International ACM/IEEE Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2017), to be... Read More →

Research on “Community Cellular Networks” in the Philippines was selected by the Vodafone Foundation as a finalist for their Wireless Innovation Project. Read more about... Read More →

Dr. Blumenstock and Dr. Jonathan Robinson (UCSC) are leading a new initiative on digital credit in developing countries. The Digital Credit Observatory is supported by... Read More →

Dr. Blumenstock and co-authors have published a new article, “Mapping poverty using mobile phone and satellite data.” Abstract Poverty is one of the most important... Read More →