Joshua Bloom

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|birth_name = Joshua Simon Bloom

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|06|08}}

| birth_place = Washington, D.C., USA

| field = Astrophysics, Computer Science

| work_institution = University of California, Berkeley

| alma_mater = Harvard College, A.B..
Cambridge University, M.Phil
California Institute of Technology, PhD

| known_for = Gamma-Ray Bursts, Artificial Intelligence

| prizes = 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

}}

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 [http://wise.io wise.io] (acquired{{Cite web

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| title = GE acquires Wise.io to deepen its machine learning stack

| newspaper = Techcrunch

| date = November 2016

| url = https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/15/ge-acquires-wise-io-to-deepen-its-machine-learning-stack

}} 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

{{Cite news

|last = Wong

|first = Kathleen

|title = Tracking Space Transients

|newspaper = ScienceMatters@Berkeley

|location = Berkeley, California

|date = February 2008

|url = http://sciencematters.berkeley.edu/archives/volume5/issue35/story3.php

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}} and other astrophysical transients such as supernovae and tidal disruption events. He is author of the book What Are Gamma-Ray Bursts?{{Cite book

| last = Bloom

| first = Joshua

| title = What Are Gamma-Ray Bursts?

| publisher=Princeton University Press

| location = Princeton

| year = 2011

| isbn = 978-0-691-14557-0 }}

published by Princeton University Press in 2011.

Research

In 2009, ScienceWatch wrote that Bloom's gamma-ray bursts "work ranks at No. 10 by total cites, based on 85 papers cited a total of 3,639 times. Five of these papers are on the lists of the 20 most-cited papers over the past decade and over the past two years."{{Cite web

| title = Gamma-ray Bursts, Special Topics Interview

| publisher=Thomson Reuters ScienceWatch

| date = August 2009

| url=http://sciencewatch.com/ana/st/gamma/09augGamBloom/

| accessdate = March 3, 2019 }} He has published over 300 refereed articles{{Cite web

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| accessdate = January 4, 2011 }} and was principal investigator of the Peters Automated Infrared Telescope (PAIRITEL)

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| title = PAIRITEL, Robotic Telescope for the 21st century

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at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona. He is also principal investigator of the Synoptic Infrared Survey Telescope (SASIR).

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Project and was co-chair of the transients and variable star group of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). Some of Bloom's current work focuses on the classification of astrophysical transients using machine-learning techniques.

{{Cite web

| title = NSF Supports UC Berkeley in Taming the Data Deluge in Astronomy

| url=http://cse.berkeley.edu/news/nsf-supports-uc-berkeley-taming-data-deluge-astronomy

| accessdate = January 4, 2011 }}

{{Cite news

| last = Mike

| first = Wall

| title = Astronomy Overload: Scientists Shifting From Stargazing to Data Mining

| newspaper=Space.com

| date = October 11, 2010

| url = http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy-data-mining-shifts-focus-from-stargazing-101011.html}} He suggested{{cite web|last=Joshua S. Bloom|title=GRB 110328A / Swift J164449.3+573451: X-ray analysis and a mini-blazar analogy|url=http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn3/11847.gcn3|publisher=GCN Circulars 11847 (30 March 2011)|date=2011-03-30|display-authors=etal}} that GRB 110328A was due to a new class of relativistic outflow events from tidal disruption of a star by a massive black hole.

Honors and awards

Bloom was awarded the Herchel Smith Harvard Scholarship to Cambridge University in 1996, and was a Hertz Foundation Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. In 2006, Bloom was named as a Sloan Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In 2008, he was included as one of Astronomy magazine's ten "rising stars.[http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/18442 "National magazines tout two chemists and two astronomers as top innovators in their fields"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613182410/http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/18442 |date=June 13, 2011 }}, University of California Newsroom, Berkeley, CA, August 22, 2008. In 2009, he was awarded the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy from the American Astronomical Society. In 2010, he was named as the Sophie and Tycho Brahe Visiting Professor at Copenhagen University.

{{Cite web

| title = Sophie and Tycho Brahe Programme

| url = http://dark.nbi.ku.dk/thecentre/sophie_brahe_programme/

| accessdate = January 4, 2011

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He was awarded the Faculty Research Award{{Cite web

| title = Two Sigma: Awards or Consultants

| url = https://www.twosigma.com/community/academic-partnerships/team-faculty-research-award-consultant/

| accessdate = September 19, 2022

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from Two Sigma in 2019. He is the Co-Creator of the VOEvent messaging scheme for astronomical transients.

Teaching

Bloom teaches astronomy to graduate and undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to astronomy-centric courses, he teaches the "Python Computing for Data Science" graduate course,

{{Cite web

| title = Python Computing for Data Science

| website = GitHub

| url = https://github.com/profjsb/python-seminar

| accessdate = September 19, 2022

}} aimed at PhD students in data-rich fields. Some of his lectures are available to the public as podcasts

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| title = Astro 10P Introduction to General Astronomy

| url=http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978378

| accessdate = January 4, 2011 }}

and video streams (Python class).

{{Cite web

|title = AY250: Python computing for physical science

|url = http://webcast.berkeley.edu/playlist#c,s,Spring_2012,45D5CCBB5073FDB4

|accessdate = February 21, 2012

|url-status = dead

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|archivedate = March 16, 2016

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Tennis

Bloom held an International Tennis Federation worldwide 45+ Masters Tour Singles Ranking of 556 in 2023,

{{Cite web

| title = Joshua Bloom Masters Tour Singles Overview

| url = https://www.itftennis.com/en/players/joshua-bloom/800664994/usa/vt/s/overview/#pprofile-info-tabs

| accessdate = Aug 27, 2023

}} in July 2023 was ranked 54 in the United States Tennis Association Men's 45 National Standings List for Singles,

{{Cite web

| title = Joshua Bloom: Standing List Rankings

| url = https://www.usta.com/en/home/play/player-search/profile.html#?uaid=2010587246&results-eventType=ALL&results-year=all#tab=rankings

| accessdate = Aug 27, 2023

}} and in August 2024 was ranked 26 in the United States Tennis Association Men's 40+ 4.5 National Standings List for Singles.

References

External links

[http://astro.berkeley.edu/~jbloom/ Joshua Bloom homepage]

Category:Living people

Category:1974 births

Category:Harvard College alumni

Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge

Category:California Institute of Technology alumni

Category:University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty

Category:Sloan Research Fellows

Category:Recipients of the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy