Biography:Eric Xing
Eric Poe Xing | |
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邢波 | |
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| Born | Shanghai, China |
| Alma mater | Tsinghua University Rutgers University University of California, Berkeley |
| Spouse(s) | Wei Wu |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence |
| Thesis | Probabilistic graphical models and algorithms for genomic analysis (2004) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Karp Michael I. Jordan Stuart J. Russell |
| Website | cs |
Eric Poe Xing (Chinese: 邢波) is an American computer scientist who has been serving as president of Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) since January 2021. He is also a professor in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science.
Biography
Xing received a B.Sc. in physics from Tsinghua University in 1993, a Ph.D. in molecular biology and biochemistry from Rutgers University in 1999[1][2] and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004.[3][4]
Xing joined Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) as a faculty member in 2004, where he created the SAILING Lab.[5] He served as the founding director of CMU’s Center for Machine Learning and Health, established in 2015 as part of the Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance, a collaboration between CMU, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.[6][7]
He held visiting appointments from 2010 to 2011, serving as a visiting research professor at Facebook Inc. and as a visiting associate professor in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University.[8][9][10]
In 2016, Xing co-founded Petuum Inc., a US-based startup. In 2017, Petuum raised $93 million in a round of venture funding from SoftBank.[11] In 2018 Petuum was named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer.[12]
On 29 November 2020, Xing was appointed president of the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), with the appointment taking effect in January 2021.[13]
In 2024, Xing co-founded GenBio AI[14][15] where he is chief scientist. The US-based startup, which he co-founded with David Baker, Ziv Bar-Joseph, Emma Lundberg, Le Song and Fred Hu, aims to create AI-driven digital organisms (AIDO) for the purposes of modeling medical treatments.[16]
Xing has overseen the launch of the MBZUAI Institute of Foundation Models (IFM), which focuses on research and development of large-scale foundation models.[17] In 2025–2026, IFM released the open-source reasoning model K2 Think, which was covered internationally as part of the UAE’s push to develop domestically controlled (“sovereign”) AI capabilities.[18][19] IFM presented PAN as a “world model” research project and demonstrated related systems publicly.[20] MBZUAI also collaborated with G42 and Cerebras Systems on the Jais language model, an open-source Arabic–English large language model released in 2023, according to Reuters.[21]
Awards
Xing is a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award[22] [23] and the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.[24][23]
Xing is an elected Fellow of the following institutes and associations:
- Association of Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (2016)[25]
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2019)[26]
- American Statistical Association (2022)[27]
- Association for Computing Machinery (2022)[28]
- Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2023)[29]
Selected publications
References
- ↑ "Eric Xing". https://www.weforum.org/people/eric-xing.
- ↑ "Eric Xing". https://milkeninstitute.org/events/global-conference-2023/speakers/eric-xing.
- ↑ "Eric Xing's Biography". https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~epxing/biography.html.
- ↑ "Probabilistic Graphical Models and Algorithms for Genomic Analysis". 2004. https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2004/8243.html.
- ↑ "Sailing Lab". https://sailing-lab.github.io/.
- ↑ "Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance Launched to Transform Health Care Through Data". 16 March 2015. https://www.upmc.com/media/news/031615-health-data-alliance.
- ↑ "Foundations of Research Computing Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr. Eric Xing". 8 November 2018. https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/foundations-research-computing-distinguished-lecture-series-dr-eric-xing-professor-department-machine-learning-carnegie-mellon-university-founder-chief-executive-officer-chief-scient/.
- ↑ "UAE university vies for international recognition in AI education and research". Computer Weekly. 5 December 2023. https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/UAE-university-vies-for-international-recognition-in-AI-education-and-research.
- ↑ El Chmouri, Omar; Bergen, Mark (23 May 2025). "UAE’s AI University Aims to Become Stanford of the Gulf". Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-23/uae-s-ai-university-aims-to-become-stanford-of-the-gulf.
- ↑ "MBZUAI appoints Professor Dr. Eric Xing as President". 29 November 2020. https://www.mediaoffice.abudhabi/en/education/mbzuai-appoints-world-renowned-leading-ai/.
- ↑ Kolodny, Lora (10 October 2017). "A.I. startup Petuum is the latest company to get a big check from SoftBank". CNBC (NBCUniversal). https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/10/ai-startup-petuum-gets-investment-from-softbank.html.
- ↑ "Introducing the Technology Pioneers Cohort of 2018". https://widgets.weforum.org/techpioneers-2018/index.html.
- ↑ "MBZUAI appoints world-renowned academic Professor Eric Xing as President". Emirates News Agency. 29 November 2020. https://www.wam.ae/en/article/hszrbd3z-mbzuai-appoints-world-renowned-academic-professor.
- ↑ "Davos 2025: The risks of a change in global order under Trump". France Médias Monde. 23 January 2025. https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/people-profit/20250123-davos-2025-the-risks-of-a-change-in-global-order-under-trump.
- ↑ "Post-Hoc: Big Pharma is losing the AI talent war". Endpoints News. 12 January 2025. https://endpoints.news/pharma-is-losing-the-ai-talent-war-against-startups-analysis/.
- ↑ Hu, Charlotte (16 January 2025). "Using AI To Predict Gene Expression". Carnegie Mellon University. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2025/gene-expression.
- ↑ "Abu Dhabi launches low-cost AI reasoning model in challenge to OpenAI and DeepSeek". The New York Times. 9 September 2025. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/technology/uae-emirates-ai-open-source.html.
- ↑ "The United Arab Emirates releases a tiny but powerful AI model". WIRED. 9 September 2025. https://www.wired.com/story/uae-releases-a-tiny-but-powerful-reasoning-model/.
- ↑ "UAE launches ‘sovereign’ open AI model to counter Chinese rivals". Financial Times. 2 February 2026. https://www.ft.com/content/465c717b-af26-48c1-a530-e9e6d313f96a.
- ↑ "A United Arab Emirates Lab Announces Frontier AI Projects—and a New Outpost in Silicon Valley". WIRED. 22 May 2025. https://www.wired.com/story/the-united-arab-emirates-announces-frontier-ai-projects-and-a-new-lab-in-silicon-valley/.
- ↑ "UAE's G42 launches open source Arabic language AI model". Reuters. 30 August 2023. https://www.reuters.com/technology/uaes-g42-launches-open-source-arabic-language-ai-model-2023-08-30/.
- ↑ "CAREER: Uncovering the Process and Mechanism of Regulatory Evolution – Novel Statistical Models and Computational Algorithms for Evolutionary Genomics (Award DBI-0546594)". National Science Foundation. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award?AWD_ID=0546594.
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 "SCS Faculty Awards". https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scsfacts/sloan.html.
- ↑ (PDF) 2008 annual report (Report). Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. https://sloan.org/storage/app/media/files/annual_reports/2008_annual_report_vf.pdf. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
- ↑ "AAAI Fellows Elected in 2016". AAAI. 2016. http://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-list.php.
- ↑ Carnegie Mellon University (December 2018). "Machine Learning Professor Eric Xing Named 2019 IEEE Fellow" (in en). https://www.ml.cmu.edu/news/news-archive/2016-2020/2018/december/professor-eric-xing-named-2019-ieee-fellow.html.
- ↑ "ASA 2022 Fellows". American Statistical Association. https://www.amstat.org/docs/default-source/amstat-documents/pdfs/fellows/fellows2022.pdf.
- ↑ "Global computing association names 57 fellows for outstanding contributions that propel technology today". Association for Computing Machinery. January 18, 2023. https://www.acm.org/media-center/2023/january/fellows-2022.
- ↑ "2023 IMS Fellows Announced". 2 May 2023. https://imstat.org/2023/05/02/2023-ims-fellows-announced/.
External links
- Eric Xing (at Carnegie Mellon University )
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