Eric Poe Xing | |
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Born | Shanghai, China |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Tsinghua University Rutgers University University of California, Berkeley |
Spouse | Wei Wu[1] |
Awards | IMS 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 | |
Fields | Computer Science Machine Learning Computational Biology |
Institutions | Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence Carnegie Mellon University Stanford University |
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 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 a Co-founder and Chief Scientist of GenBio AI [5] and the Founder, Chairman, and former Chief Scientist and CEO of Petuum Inc.[6]