Conferences/Events
Fischer J, et al. “The Future of Climate and Weather Modeling.” Panel moderator, SatSummit 2024 (Lisbon), Development Seed. Nov 18, 2024.
Fischer J. “Inteligencia artificial para la generación de evidencia de política pública - innovación responsable y desafíos éticos.” Speaker and panelist, Semana de la Evaluación gLOCAL 2024, CONEVAL. Nov 13, 2024. Recording available in Spanish here
Fischer J, Forbush G. “AI Governance: How to Build & Maintain Trust in the World of ML.” Featured speaker, GovAI Summit, Modev. Oct 29, 2024. Recording available here
Fischer J, Deary B. “Understanding Open and Closed AI.” Featured speaker, 2024 AI and Cyber Summit, Fusion Learning Partners. May 2, 2024.
Varshney S, Lewis B, Williams G, Kobb R, Fischer J, Pai R. “Artificial Intelligence for Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) .” Briefing, Big Data Analytics Working Group, FAA. April 30, 2024.
Fischer J. “Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Business & Global Trade.” Featured speaker, LDEC Trade Talks, US Commercial Service. Apr 4, 2024.
Fischer J, Villany J, Barshay M. “Harnessing Large Language Models (LLMs) for Traceable Results.” Breakout session, GovAI Summit, Modev. Dec 5, 2023.
Fischer J. “Ensemble NLP to classify medical conditions.” Georgetown University: Interdisciplinary Text Analysis Research working group (Massive Data Institute). Guest speaker, Feb 16, 2022.
Fischer J. “Ensemble NLP to classify medical conditions.” R Conference: Government & Public Sector, Lander Analytics. Virtual conference, Dec 9-10, 2021. Recording available here.
Fischer J. “Transparent representation: an open-source ecosystem for political accountability.” Tech demo, RightsCon, Access Now. Virtual conference, June 8, 2021.
News/Blogs
Fischer J. 8 Fatal Mistakes to Avoid when Ordering an AI System. Medium/MachineLearning.ai (Jan 2022).
Fischer J. Moving Towards Scalable, Responsive, and Sustainable Machine Learning. DataBistro (Apr 2021).
Fischer J. Open Source Social Listening: Applications for the public sector. Medium/Nerd for Tech (Feb 2021).
Larrain de Andraca I, Fischer J, Vazquez Brust A. Behind the scenes: Big Data analysis for public policy. Ciudades Sostenibles, Inter-American Development Bank (Mar 2020). Also available in Spanish.
Zambrano-Barragán P, Fischer J, Lemus E. Presenting the Open Urban Planning Toolbox. Abierto al Público, Inter-American Development Bank (Nov 2019). Also available in Spanish.
Fischer J, Zambrano-Barragán P, Lemus E. DATUM: un centro de recursos para el mapeo participativo de tránsito urbano — El caso de Santiago de los Caballeros. Ciudades Sostenibles, Inter-American Development Bank (Sep 2019). Also available in English.
Fischer J, Lemus E, Quiroga M, Zambrano-Barragán P. DATUM: facilitating community collection and public use of urban mobility data in the Americas. Ciudades Sostenibles, Inter-American Development Bank (Jun 2019). Also available in Spanish.
Academic
Fischer J, Cerpa M, Mendez J, Lee R, D’Mello T, Rodriguez A, Palekar R. Influenza and Other Respiratory Virus Surveillance Systems in the Americas: 2014. Washington, DC: Pan American Health Organization (2015). Also available in Spanish.
Siddiq F, Fischer J. Population Volatility in Large Counties in the United States. International Advances in Economic Research 19, 321–323 (2013).
Fischer, J. Politics in China: Has the People’s Government Set Itself up for a People’s Revolt? Hinckley Journal of Politics, 22-27 (2012).
Fischer, J. Rethinking Healthcare: China’s Aging Population. APEC CEO Summit Magazine, 94-98 (2011).
Awards
IBM Technology Consulting honoree (2023)
IBM Entrepreneur Award (2022)
IBM Consulting Corporate Technical Award (2022)
Innovation and Delivery Excellence Awards: Best AI Project (2021)
Innovation and Delivery Excellence Awards: Best Growth Platform Collaboration (2021)