Joshua Blumenstock is a Chancellor's Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and Goldman School of Public Policy. He is also the Director of the Global Opportunity Lab, a co-Director of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), and a co-Chair of J-PAL's Project AI Evidence. His research combines methods from computer science and economics to examine how technology and new sources of data can address the needs of people living in poverty and other vulnerable populations. He holds a PhD in Information Science and an MA in Economics from UC Berkeley, and bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Physics from Wesleyan University.