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Eric Xing
President & University Professor, MBZUAI
MBZUAIAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Leads the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), the world's first graduate research university dedicated to AI. His own research spans statistical machine learning, distributed systems and computational biology, with more than 400 papers and over 44,000 citations.
Research background
Before MBZUAI, Xing was a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where he founded the Center for Machine Learning and Health. He is a fellow of AAAI, IEEE and the American Statistical Association.
As MBZUAI's president he represents the university at international forums; in April 2026 he spoke at Semafor's World Economy summit in Washington, DC in that capacity.
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