Dr Eric Xing

President, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

The Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) was launched in Abu Dhabi in 2019 as the world’s first graduate-level, research-based AI university. Leading the institution is professor Dr Eric Xing, who was appointed as its president in November last year. He previously served as the associate department head of Research at the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University in the US. Dr Xing is also a fellow of the Association of Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and a board member of the International Machine Learning Society. He is also the founder, chairman and chief scientist of Petuum, a USbased startup company that builds standardised AI development platforms.