Joshua Bloom

Professor, Department of Astronomy
Co-I for Moore/Sloan Data Science Environments
BIDS Faculty Affiliate

Real name: 
Joshua Bloom

Josh Bloom an astronomy professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches high-energy astrophysicsPython bootcamps, and a graduate-level class on Python for data-driven science. He has published more than 250 refereed articles, largely on time-domain transients events and telescope/insight automation. Expressed in his research is output of a collaborative effort between talented astronomers, statisticians, and computer scientists (ranging from students to peers) at the nexus of physics, scalable computation, and machine learning.  His book on gamma-ray bursts was published in 2011, as part of the "Frontiers in Physics" series by Princeton University Press. He has been awarded the Pierce Prize from the American Astronomical Society, and he is a former Sloan Fellow, Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society, and Hertz Foundation Fellow. He holds a PhD from Caltech and degrees from Harvard and Cambridge University. Recently, he has working as co-PI of the Moore-Sloan Data Science Initiative at UC Berkeley and an elected member of the management oversight body of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).

Projects

starry sky

Learning fundamental properties of physical systems with machine learning

Status: Archived


Events

July 22, 2022 / 6:15am to 5:00pm

May 29, 2019 / 8:15am to 7:30pm

April 18, 2019 / 2:30pm to 3:30pm

July 11, 2016 / 9:00am to July 17, 2016 / 6:00pm