Joshua Bloom

Joshua Bloom is professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, a leading figure at the crossroads of high-energy astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and time-domain astronomy. Bloom earned his A.B. in astronomy and physics from Harvard University in 1996, received a master’s degree from Cambridge University, and completed his Ph.D. in astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology in 2002. He is the author of What Are Gamma-Ray Bursts? (Princeton University Press, 2011) and co-founded Wise.io, an AI startup acquired by GE in 2016. He has received the Pierce Prize from the American Astronomical Society and was named a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Data-Driven Discovery Fellow.