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I am a postdoctoral fellow in AIDS Prevention Studies at University of California, San Francisco.
My mentor is Mark van der Laan at U.C. Berkeley.

Recent Papers

Here are some recent papers along with slides from talks:

1. Rosenblum, M. and van der Laan, M.
Using Regression Models to Analyze Randomized Trials:
Asymptotically Valid Hypothesis Tests Despite Incorrectly Specified Models
Biometrics (To Appear)
Slides from recent talk at Berkeley Statistics Colloquium on this work.

2. Rosenblum, M., Jewell, N. P., van der Laan, M. J., Shiboski, S., van der Straten, A., and Padian, N.
Analyzing Direct Effects in Randomized Trials with Secondary Interventions: An Application to HIV Prevention Trials
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (To Appear)
Slides from recent talk at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center on this work.

3. Padian, N., van der Straten, A., Ramjee, G., Chipato, T., de Bruyn, G., Blanchard, K., Shiboski, S., Montgomery, E., Fancher, H., Cheng, H., Rosenblum, M., van der Laan, M., Jewell, N., McIntyre, J., and the MIRA Team.
Diaphragm and lubricant gel for prevention of HIV acquisition in southern African women: a randomised controlled trial
The Lancet - Vol. 370, Issue 9583, 21 July 2007, Pages 251-261

Also see: Diaphragms and Lubricant Gel for Prevention of HIV--Authors' reply. Nicholas Jewell, Ariane van der Straten, Elizabeth T Montgomery, Michael Rosenblum, Nancy S. Padian. The Lancet- Volume 370, Issue 9602, December 2007, Pages 1823-1824.

4. Rosenblum, M., and van der Laan, M.
Confidence Intervals for the Population Mean Tailored to Small Sample Sizes, with Applications to Survey Sampling,

Teaching:

In Fall 2007 I taught Statistics 131A at Berkeley.
In Spring 2007 I taught Statistics 20 at Berkeley.

Publications:

Research Publications

A quote I try to follow in my research:

"... on account of the pernicious and inveterate habit of dwelling on abstractions, it is safer to begin and raise the sciences from those foundations which have relation to practice, and to let the active part itself be as the seal which prints and determines the contemplative counterpart." -- --Francis Bacon , Novum Organum , bk ii, aph iv (1620) in: The Works of Francis Bacon vol. 1, p. 169 (Spedding ed. 1877)

Other Stuff: Project Ideas, Communications Technology for Developing Countries, PhD Work

Project Ideas: (feel free to use these)
Using Monetary Incentives to Improve Accuracy of Self-Reported Condom Use in Resource-Poor Settings

In the middle of January (2005), I joined the Technology Infrastructure for Emerging Regions (TIER) project at University of California, Berkeley.

In September (2004), I completed my Ph.D. in Applied Math at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I was part of the Theory of Computation group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and also part of the Harvard Broadband Communications Laboratory. My research interests include algorithms and probability, motivated by applications in improving the performance of digital communications networks (e.g. wireless networks).

In December 2004 I visited 7 of the Community Information Centers in Cambodia, run by the Asia Foundation. These computer centers with internet connections provide much needed information in health, agriculture, news, and government programs to areas of Cambodia with little other information sources. Here is a project overview.

My purpose was to create a List of Projects that interested people can work on that would be useful to the Community Information Centers.
Please take a look and contact me if any of them interest you! (A wonderful project is to create CD's of freely available English as a Second Language software, for areas that have computers but no internet connectivity. There is much demand for this.)

At MIT, I did a project on improving technology use in humanitarian assistance operations.
Click here for a summary of my project: Matching the Technology Needs of International Humanitarian Assistance Programs with MIT Researchers.
Click here for my compiled list of: Humanitarian Assistance Technology Projects.
I have an initial list of: Organizations Working to Support Humanitarian Organizations through Improved Technology. Note: This list is a small sample of organizations involved in this area.
If you would like to suggest a technology-related problem in disaster relief, please e-mail me the details. Here is a questionnaire to get you thinking.

HELP 2002
In 2002, I completed the Management of Health Emergencies in Large Populations (HELP) course given by The Johns Hopkins Center for International Emergency, Disaster, and Refugee Studies (CIEDRS) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). A picture of my eclectic class who are at this moment out saving the world.

I do consulting on programs for gifted students, and individual tutoring as well. Please contact me by email (below) if interested. I have taught at Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY), Duke's Talent Identification Program (TIP), and the East Palo Alto Center for New Generation; I designed software for Stanford's Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY).

My brother Daniel Rosenblum is applying for Assistant Professor Positions in Economics. His website (with CV and Research) is here.

I am an avid Salsa dancer. For the best Salsa in the Cambridge area, check out WEPA with New York Style Salsa instructor extraordinaire April Genovese.