Jeremy Pesner

AI4ALL - Updated Data Governance Policy to comply with GDPR, NIST AI RMF and EU-AI Act and ensure proper legal standing. Led reduction of data retention that resulted in a 25% decrease in analysis time while maintaining level of analytical insight into learner performance

Machine Intelligence Research Institute - Reviewer on book written by org co-founders on dangers posted by emerging superintelligence. Feedback centered around clear messaging, likelihood of occurrence, logical fallacies and overall flow of ideas

National Security Innovation Network - Advised team of 5 startup founders of analytics business on how to leverage data from key government agency and transform it into a go-to-market strategy

Elaboration Labs - Analyze and code data to develop insights, track AI law & policy developments that affect operations and develop guidance for organizational compliance operations

Imagining the Digital Future - Contributed future visions of AI to major report on the future of AI and digital technologies

Collaboratively authored comprehensive policy analysis briefing documents read by ~100 Congresspeople/staffers with new insights on AI, cybersecurity, privacy and broadband

Developed relationships and met with corporate, legislative and executive branch stakeholders to outline emerging cyber risks, inform federal and state regulation, and produce policy report of different cyber risks promoted by cyber working group members

Engaged with 3 key blue-chip software firms to explore business development around VR, gaming and consumer electronics

Managed two staff in development of programming Python sentiment analysis of AI policy documents, leading to in-house tool used to guide assessment of ~40 different countries' opinions and feelings around AI

Collaboratively authored comprehensive policy analysis briefing documents read by ~100 Congresspeople/staffers with new insights on AI, cybersecurity, privacy and broadband

Developed relationships and met with corporate, legislative and executive branch stakeholders to outline emerging cyber risks, inform federal and state regulation, and produce policy report of different cyber risks promoted by cyber working group members

Engaged with 3 key blue-chip software firms to explore business development around VR, gaming and consumer electronics

Managed two staff in development of programming Python sentiment analysis of AI policy documents, leading to in-house tool used to guide assessment of ~40 different countries' opinions and feelings around AI

Assisted as right hand of IEF Exec. Director in planning State of the Net, the premiere annual Internet policy conference with ~300 attendees. Proposed panel topics, suggested speakers and ran social media posts

Conducted research on state of affairs for issues of content moderation, antitrust policy and rural broadband through extensive reading and assessment of current laws, to provide context for panelists

Served as point of contact for ~15 high-profile speakers from US House of Representatives, Senate, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy & several executive agencies

Wrote copy for ~30 invitation letters, marketing materials for email and social media, and panel descriptions used to attract interest

Moderated panel on new business opportunities for telecom and social media companies in light of uncertain changing policies

Investigated emerging stealth sectors in Israel and published article highlighting the fields with ~30 stealth startups, signaling potential emergent activity and estimated time to commercialization

Collaborated with Israel Internet Association and other technology stakeholders to explore how the Internet of Things could reshape the engineering and economics of the semiconductor, manufacturing and consumer appliance sectors

Led market research to determine the multinational corporations best positioned to outcompete startups for talent across sectors

Used R programming language to halve the time required to gather data from Finder database and complete analyses and reports

Helped develop five startups by connecting them to foreign governments and companies for partnership and investment

Streamlined role's weekly data analysis & reporting manhours from 30 hours to 5 minutes by developing automated R scripts

Constructed 7 web dashboards using Shiny to display clear visualizations of foster child placement data

Developed data governance strategy, budgeted IT requirements, and ensured analysts only accessed as much data as required

Guided and taught four colleagues how to program in R, providing assignments and clear quarterly feedback on their progress to assess their ongoing competency in the language and efficacy to further automate agency reporting tools

Authored three policy memos detailing how to purchase security certificates and ensure compliance across all Executive agencies

Project managed a website over five months to track agency compliance on standards for security, usability and data collection

Developed analytics and metrics over three months to determine the most crucial and often-viewed webpages

Collaborated with developers and ten other stakeholders from three other government agencies to provide support and develop timeframes for ensuring necessary upgrades to critical webpages