Eric Xing
Eric Poe Xing | |
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邢波 | |
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| Born | Shanghai, China |
| Education | Tsinghua University Rutgers University University of California, Berkeley |
| Spouse | Wei Wu |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Workplaces | Carnegie Mellon University Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence |
| Thesis | Probabilistic graphical models and algorithms for genomic analysis (2004) |
| 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 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 where he founded the SAILING Lab in 2004, and is the co-founder of the AI companies Petuum and GenBio AI.
Xing's research focuses on statistical machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, and systems for distributed machine learning. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2019 for "contributions to machine learning algorithms and systems" and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2022 for "contributions to algorithms, architectures, and applications in machine learning."