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Sameer Maskey

Dr Sameer Maskey is a computer scientist, educator and entrepreneur. He is currently the Founder and CEO at Fusemachines Inc and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University.

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Dr Sameer Maskey is a computer scientist, educator and entrepreneur. He is currently the Founder and CEO at Fusemachines Inc 12 and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University.34

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.910

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 programs1213 AI job opportunities,1415 and an AI platform that helps schools provide AI Assisted Learning.16

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References

  1. Reese, Byron (2019-05-16). "Voices in AI – Episode 87: A Conversation with Sameer Maskey". gigaom.com. Archived from the original on May 20, 2019. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  2. "Sameer Maskey: With right talent, Artificial Intelligence can help transform Nepal". kathmandupost.com. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  3. "Columbia University Faculty Directory".
  4. Kwok, Roberta (2019-04-23). "Junior AI researchers are in demand by universities and industry". Nature. 568 (7753): 581–583. Bibcode:2019Natur.568..581K. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01248-w. PMID 31015687.
  5. "Sameer Maskey: With right talent, Artificial Intelligence can help transform Nepal". kathmandupost.com. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  6. "Meet the CEO on a mission to democratize Artificial Intelligence". kathmandupost.com. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  7. "Meet the CEO on a mission to democratize Artificial Intelligence". kathmandupost.com. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  8. "DR. SAMEER MASKEY". TNM. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  9. "ACL 2010 - Student Research Workshop". mirror.aclweb.org. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  10. "ACL HLT 2011". www.aclweb.org. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  11. "NYC company, with an assist from Columbia online teaching, is training AI talent in places few other companies think to look | Department of Computer Science, Columbia University". www.cs.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  12. "Entrevista Sameer Maskey - Founder and CEO de Fusemachines". YouTube. 27 November 2018.
  13. "Venture Talk with Dr. Sameer Maskey | Democratizing AI". YouTube. 14 December 2018.
  14. Awale, Sonia (15 November 2019). "Bringing Silicon Valley to Kathmandu Valley". Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  15. "Fusemachines Nepal announces AI fellowship". kathmandupost.com. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  16. "Fusemachines launches Fuse Classroom, AI-enabled education platform".