Please note: This webpage may be outdated. The PDF version of my C.V. is more reliable.
Journal Articles
- Blumenstock, JE, and N Eagle (2012, in press). Divided We Call: Disparities in Access and Use of Mobile Phones in Rwanda, Information Technology and International Development, Forthcoming 2012
- Blumenstock, JE (2012). Inferring Patterns of Internal Migration from Mobile Phone Call Records, Information Technology for Development, 18(2), 1-19 [pdf]
- Gordon, GJ, RV Jensen, LL Hsiao, SR Gullans, JE Blumenstock, WG Richards, MT Jaklitsch, DJ Sugarbaker, and R Bueno (2003). Using Gene Expression Ratios to Predict Outcome Among Patients With Mesothelioma, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 95(8), 598-605 [pdf]
- Gordon, GJ, RV Jensen, LL Hsiao, SR Gullans, JE Blumenstock, S Ramaswamy, WG Richards, DJ Sugarbaker, and R Bueno (2002). Translation of Microarray Data Into Clinically Relevant Cancer Diagnostic Tests Using Gene Expression Ratios in Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma, Cancer Research, 62(17), 4963-4967 [pdf]
- Fryer, RM, J Randall, T Yoshida, LL Hsiao, JE Blumenstock, KE Jensen, T Dimofte, RV Jensen, and SR Gullans (2002). Global Analysis of Gene Expression: Methods, Interpretation, and Pitfalls, Experimental Nephrology, 10(2), 64-74 [pdf]
- Hsiao, LL, RV Jensen, T Yoshida, KE Clark, JE Blumenstock, and SR Gullans (2002). Correcting for Signal Errors in the Analysis of Microarray Data, Biotechniques, 32 (2), 330-337 [pdf]
Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings
- Mehrohtra, A, V Mohan, A Nguyen, and JE Blumenstock (2012). Do Men and Women Use Phones Differently? Quantitative Evidence from Rwanda, Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD), Forthcoming 2012
- Blumenstock, JE (2011). Using Mobile Phone Data to Measure the Ties Between Nations, Proceedings of the 2011 iConference, 195-202 [pdf]
- Blumenstock, JE, and N Eagle (2010). Mobile Divides: Gender, Socioeconomic Status, and Mobile Phone Use in Rwanda, Proceedings of the 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) [pdf]
- Blumenstock, JE, Y Shen and N Eagle (2010). A Method for Estimating the Relationship Between Phone Use and Wealth, QualMeetsQuant Workshop at ICTD2010 [pdf]
- Blumenstock, JE, D Gillick, and N Eagle (2010). Who's Calling? Demographics of Mobile Phone Use in Rwanda, AAAI Spring Symposium [pdf]
- Blumenstock, JE (2008). Size Matters: Word Count as a Measure of Quality on Wikipedia, Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on the World Wide Web (WWW), ACM Press, 2008, 1095-1096 [pdf]
- Gemmell, J, R Lueder, JE Blumenstock, E Solomon, and G Bell (2003). Telephone, Television and Radio in the Home of the Future, Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, 2003, 263-268 [pdf]
Working Papers
- "Charity and Reciprocity in Mobile Phone-Based Giving: Evidence from Rwanda." Working paper [pdf].
- "The Effect of Mobile Money on Savings and Investment Decisions in Uganda." In progress.
- "Heterogeneous Risk Preferences and Mobile Phone Plan Choice." In progress.
- "Reducing Graft Through Mobile Payments: Evidence from Afghanistan." In progress.
Invited Presentations, Technical Reports, and Magazine Articles
- Stanford Seminar on Liberation Technology (2012).
- Pacific Telecommunications Consortium (2012).
- Blumenstock, JE (2008). "Automatically Assessing the Quality of Wikipedia Articles", University of California at Berkeley School of Information Technical Report, #2008-021.
- Blumenstock, JE (2007). "Named Entity Recognition in Biographical Markup", ECAI/PNC Joint Meeting on Area Studies, October 2007.
- Blumenstock, JE (2004). "Closing the Gap: Solutions to South Africa's Digital Divide", The Big Issue, 81(8), 22-23.
- Blumenstock, JE (2003). "Mining Clusters for Knowledge: Finding Algorithm-Independent Groups in Microarray Data", Undergraduate thesis, Wesleyan University.