Research
I'm a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley. My current research focuses on the economics of information in the developing world. I'm interested in developing theoretical and empirical models of how information (and ICTs) can help or hinder socioeconomic development.
My past research, reflected in the publications below, has been focused on artificial intelligence - specifically in machine learning and the statistical analysis of large-scale datasets. More details can be found in my CV or resume.
Publications
Journal Articles
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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
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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
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Cancer Research,
62(17), 4963-4967
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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
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- 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
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Refereed Conference Proceedings
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Blumenstock, JE (2008).
Size Matters: Word Count as a Measure of Quality on Wikipedia,
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the World Wide Web,
ACM Press, 2008.
- 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
Invited Presentations, Technical Reports, and Magazine Articles
- 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