Eric Xing

Eric Poe Xing
Born
Shanghai, China
NationalityAmerican
Alma materTsinghua University
Rutgers University
University of California, Berkeley
SpouseWei Wu[1]
AwardsIMS Fellow (2023)
ACM Fellow (2022)
ASA Fellow (2022)
Carnegie Institution for Science Award (2019)
IEEE Fellow (2018)
AAAI Fellow (2016)
Member of the DARPA (ISAT) Advisory Group (2011-2014)
Sloan Fellowship (2008-2010)
NSF Career Award (2006-2011)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
Machine Learning
Computational Biology
InstitutionsMohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Carnegie Mellon University
Stanford University
ThesisProbabilistic graphical models and algorithms for genomic analysis (2004)
Doctoral advisorRichard Karp
Michael I. Jordan
Stuart J. Russell
Websitecs.cmu.edu/~epxing/

Eric Poe Xing is an American computer scientist whose research spans machine learning, computational biology, and statistical methodology.[2][3] Xing is founding President of the world’s first artificial intelligence university,[4] Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).

As professor in the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, he was founding director of the Center for Machine Learning and Health at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He has served as a visiting associate professor at Stanford University, and as a visiting research professor at Facebook Inc. Xing is also the Founder, Chairman, and former Chief Scientist and CEO of Petuum Inc.[5]

  1. ^ https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~weiwu2/ Wei Wu CMU
  2. ^ "Eric Xing's home page". www.cs.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2023-07-11.
  3. ^ "*** ACL2012 ***". mirror.aclweb.org. Retrieved 2023-07-11.
  4. ^ The president of the world's first artificial intelligence university speaks to CNN about the benefits and dangers of artificial intelligence | CNN, 2023-04-11, retrieved 2023-07-11
  5. ^ Mannes, John (2017-10-10). "Petuum secures $93M Series B to push AI into the mainstream". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2023-07-11.