Announcement • Jun 02
Fusemachines Inc. Announces Board and Committee Changes, Effective May 31, 2026
Effective May 31, 2026, the board of directors of Fusemachines Inc, following the recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board, appointed Julia Hirschberg as a member of the Board as a Class II director, until the Company’s 2027 annual meeting of stockholders or until Ms. Hirschberg’s successor is duly elected and qualified. Ms. Hirschberg was also appointed as a member of each of the Audit Committee of the Board, the Compensation Committee of the Board and the Nominating Committee. Ms. Hirschberg was also appointed as chair of the Compensation Committee. Ms. Hirschberg, age 79, is the Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, a position she has held since 2002, and she previously served as Chair of the Computer Science Department from 2012 to 2018; she received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and also holds a PhD from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining Columbia, she worked at Bell Laboratories and AT&T Laboratories — Research from 1985 to 2003, serving as a Member of Technical Staff, Division Manager, Technology Leader, and Department Head, where she founded and led the Human-Computer Interface Research Department. She also served as a Guest Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm from 2008 to 2009, co-chaired the Computing Research Association’s Committee on Women from 2016 to 2019, and was an Amazon Scholar from 2020 to 2025. Ms. Hirschberg is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (since 1994), the International Speech Communication Association (since 2008), the Association for Computational Linguistics (since 2011), the Association for Computing Machinery (since 2015), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (since 2017). She has been a member of the National Academy of Engineering since 2017, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2018. In 2025 was elected to the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence Academy of Sciences, from which she received the Artificial Intelligence Exploration Award. She is also an ACL Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAI Fellow, and IEEE Fellow, and is a recipient of the prestigious ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement. She has received PhDs from both the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan. Throughout her distinguished career, Dr. Hirschberg has authored hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific publications and has mentored generations of researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and technology leaders who are shaping the future of AI around the world. The Nominating Committee and the Board believe that Ms. Hirschberg’s significant experience in artificial intelligence, computer science and technology leadership provides valuable operational, leadership, strategy and management skills to the Board. On May 31, 2026, in connection with the appointment of Ms. Hirschberg, Sanjay Shrestha resigned as a member of the Board, as the chair of the Compensation Committee, and as a member of each of the Audit Committee and the Nominating Committee.