Eric Xing
American artificial intelligence researcher
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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.
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 |
| 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 |
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:
Selected publications
- Eric P. Xing; Michael I. Jordan; Stuart J. Russell; Andrew Y. Ng (2003). "Distance Metric Learning with Application to Clustering with Side-Information" (PDF). Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. Wikidata Q77691192.
- Edoardo M. Airoldi; David M. Blei; Stephen E Fienberg; Eric P Xing (1 September 2008). "Mixed Membership Stochastic Blockmodels". Journal of Machine Learning Research. 9: 1981–2014. ISSN 1533-7928. PMC 3119541. PMID 21701698. Wikidata Q35058357.
- Eric P. Xing; Michael I. Jordan; Richard M. Karp (28 June 2001), Feature selection for high-dimensional genomic microarray data, vol. 18, pp. 601–608, Wikidata Q138678867
- Xing EP; Karp RM (1 January 2001). "CLIFF: clustering of high-dimensional microarray data via iterative feature filtering using normalized cuts". Bioinformatics. 17 Suppl 1: S306-15. doi:10.1093/BIOINFORMATICS/17.SUPPL_1.S306. ISSN 1367-4803. PMID 11473022. Wikidata Q30657299.