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 | Wei Wu[1] |
| 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 the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) since January 2021. He was a professor at 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 from Rutgers University in 1999, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004.
Xing joined Carnegie Mellon University as a faculty member in 2004, and he created the SAILING Lab.[2]
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.[3] He is a co-founder and chief scientist of GenBio AI.[4]
On November 29, 2020, Xing was appointed president of the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), effective January 2021.[5]
Awards
Xing is a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award[6] and the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.[7]
He was elected to the membership at the following institutions:
- Association of Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (2016)[8]
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2019)[9]
- American Statistical Association (2022)[10]
- Association for Computing Machinery (2022)[11]
- Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2023)[12]
References
- ^ https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~weiwu2/ Wei Wu CMU
- ^ "Sailing Lab". sailing-lab.github.io. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
- ^ Kolodny, Lora (2017-10-10). "A.I. start-up Petuum is the latest company to get a big check from SoftBank". CNBC. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
- ^ "GenBio AI Releases Phase 1 of World's First Digital Organism to Transform Medical Research". GenBio AI.
- ^ "MBZUAI appoints world-renowned leading AI academic Professor Dr. Eric Xing as president". Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence. 2020-11-29. Retrieved 2026-01-21.
- ^ "SCS FACULTY AWARDS". www.cs.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
- ^ "SCS FACULTY AWARDS". www.cs.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
- ^ "AAAI Fellows Elected in 2016". AAAI. 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
- ^ University, Carnegie Mellon. "Machine Learning Professor Eric Xing Named 2019 IEEE Fellow - Machine Learning - CMU - Carnegie Mellon University". Machine Learning | Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
- ^ "ASA 2022 Fellows" (PDF). American Statistical Association. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
- ^ "Global computing association names 57 fellows for outstanding contributions that propel technology today". Association for Computing Machinery. January 18, 2023. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
- ^ "Institute of Mathematical Statistics | 2023 IMS Fellows Announced". Retrieved 2023-07-11.
External links
- Eric Xing (at Carnegie Mellon University )