As the first President of MBZUAI, the world’s first graduate-level AI research university, Professor Eric Xing has led the university’s extraordinary growth in fundamental AI research while assembling a world-class faculty. Under his leadership, partnerships have been established with IBM, Carnegie Mellon University, École Polytechnique, the Weizmann Institute of Science and others, and a state-of-the-art supercomputing centre optimised for distributed AI computation has been built.
A world-leading computer scientist with more than 400 research papers cited over 44,000 times, Xing previously served as a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and founded Petuum Inc., recognised as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer in 2018.
