Engineer Manager

Josh Blumenstock

************@*****.*** *** South Hall, School of Information, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94720

Education

University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Present

Pursuing PhD, School of Information

Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT May 2003

B.A., Computer Science: High Departmental Honors Major GPA: 4.0/4.0

B.A., Physics: High Departmental Honors Cumulative GPA: 3.9/4.0

Honors Thesis: Mining Clusters for Knowledge: Finding Algorithm-Independent Groups in Microarray Data

Honors and Awards

Berkeley Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley 2006-2010

Power Award, University of California at Berkeley 2006

Watson Fellowship, Thomas J. Watson Foundation 2003-2004

Phi Beta Kappa, Wesleyan University 2003

Senior Prize in Computer Science, Wesleyan University 2003

Johnston Prize in Physics, Wesleyan University 2000

Work/Research Experience

Founding Engineer, HOTorNOT.com, Berkeley, CA 2005-2006

Principal engineer and lead product manager for dating website with over 5M users.

Fellow, Thomas J. Watson Foundation, Providence, RI 2003-2004

Received $22k grant to research emerging technologies in China, South Africa, Cape Verde, Argentina, Brazil and Chile.

Intern, Microsoft Research, Bay Area Research Center, CA 2002

Worked in Gordon Bell and Jim Gray s lab on MyLifeBits, a database with annotations, pivoting, clustering, and search.

Research Associate, Harvard Institute of Medicine, Boston, MA 2001

Developed statistical techniques to diagnose and classify subtypes of lung cancer and other human disease.

Co-founder/Researcher, Uncanny Systems, Lake Pleasant, MA 2000

Developed algorithms and an application to analyze financial data using agent-based unsupervised learning.

Publications and Presentations

Blumenstock JE, Size Matters: Word Count as a Measure of Quality on Wikipedia . Proceedings of the 17th

International Conference on the World Wide Web. ACM Press, 2008 (forthcoming).

Blumenstock JE, Automatically Assessing the Quality of Wikipedia Articles. UCB iSchool Tech. Report. 2/2008.

Named Entity Recognition in Biographical Markup. ECAI/PNC Joint Meeting on Area Studies. October 2007.

Blumenstock, JE. Closing the Gap: Solutions to South Africa s Digital Divide The Big Issue. 81:8 (2004): 22-23

Gemmell J, Lueder R, Blumenstock JE, Solomon E, Bell G. Telephone, Television and Radio in the Home of the

Future Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications. (2003): 263-268

Gordon GJ, Jensen RV, Hsiao LL, Gullans SR, Blumenstock JE,, Sugarbaker DJ, Bueno R. Using Gene Expression

Ratios to Predict Outcome Among Patients With Mesothelioma. Journal of the Natl Cancer Inst. 95:8 (2003): 598-605

Gordon GJ, Jensen RV, Hsiao LL, Gullans SR, Blumenstock JE, Ramaswamy S, Richards WG, Sugarbaker DJ, Bueno R.

Translation of Microarray Data Into Clinically Relevant Cancer Diagnostic Tests Using Gene Expression Ratios in Lung

Cancer and Mesothelioma Cancer Research. 62:17 (2002): 4963-4967

Fryer RM, Randall J, Yoshida T, Hsiao LL, Blumenstock JE, Jensen KE, Dimofte T, Jensen RV, Gullans SR. Global

Analysis of Gene Expression: Methods, Interpretation, and Pitfalls. Experimental Nephrology. 10:2 (2002): 64-74

Hsiao LL, Jensen RV, Yoshida T, Clark KE, Blumenstock JE, Gullans SR. Correcting for Signal Errors in the Analysis

of Microarray Data. Biotechniques. 32:2 (Feb. 2002): 330-337

Skills

Conversationally fluent in Spanish and Portuguese; conversational in Chinese (Mandarin).

Research experience in machine learning, data mining, computational statistics.

Fluent in C#/C++, PHP, VBA, MatLab, SQL. Admin experience on multi-tiered web architecture w/200+ servers.

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