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 wise.io (acquired[1] by General Electric, 2016).
His astronomy research focuses on gamma-ray bursts[2] and other astrophysical transients such as supernovae and tidal disruption events.
"[4] He has published over 300 refereed articles[5] and was principal investigator of the Peters Automated Infrared Telescope (PAIRITEL)[6] at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona.
[8][9] He suggested[10] that GRB 110328A was due to a new class of relativistic outflow events from tidal disruption of a star by a massive black hole.
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.