Prof. Blumberg has published articles on location privacy technologies with respect to congestion pricing, automated traffic enforcement and location-based vehicular services. He also co- authored a white paper on location privacy with EFF staff technologist Peter Eckersley. Prior to arriving in Austin, he was an NSF postdoctoral fellow from 2005-2009 at Stanford, with a year's stint as a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2007-2008. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.