Joshua Bloom | |
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| Born | Joshua Simon Bloom June 8, 1974 Washington, D.C., USA |
| Alma mater | Harvard College, A.B.. Cambridge University, M.Phil California Institute of Technology, PhD |
| Known for | Gamma-Ray Bursts, Artificial Intelligence |
| Awards | Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Data-driven Discovery Fellow Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy Sloan Research Fellow Harvard Society of Fellows Hertz Foundation Fellow |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysics, Computer Science |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Joshua Simon Bloom (born June 8, 1974 in Washington, D.C.) is an American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, and was the CTO and co-founder of the machine-learning company wise.io (acquired[1] by General Electric, 2016). He received a Bachelor of Arts in astronomy and astrophysics and physics from the Harvard College in 1996, an M.Phil from Cambridge University in 1997, and a PhD in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology in 2002. He was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows from 2002 to 2005. He was the chair of the Astronomy Department at UC Berkeley from 2020 to 2023. His astronomy research focuses on gamma-ray bursts[2] and other astrophysical transients such as supernovae and tidal disruption events. He is author of the book What Are Gamma-Ray Bursts?[3] published by Princeton University Press in 2011.