Dr Sameer Maskey is a computer scientist, educator and entrepreneur. He is currently the Founder and CEO at Fusemachines Inc [1][2] and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University.[3][4]
Biography
Maskey grew up in Kathmandu, Nepal.[5] He attended undergraduate school at Bates College in Maine, USA with degrees in Math and Physics.[6] After graduating from Bates he went on to pursue a PhD in Computer Science at Columbia University in New York City.[7] Maskey has more than 20 papers published in International Conferences and Journals along with 9 pending/granted patents.[8] Maskey has served as a session chair, a program committee member, and a review committee member of many international conferences including ACL, HLT, ICASSP, Interspeech, NAACL and COLING.[9][10]
Maskey founded the company, Fusemachines, in 2013.[11] The company aims to make artificial intelligence technology accessible to underserved communities around the world by providing AI education programs[12][13] AI job opportunities,[14][15] and an AI platform that helps schools provide AI Assisted Learning.[16][17]
