Eric Xing

PresidentMBZUAI

BS in Physics from Tsinghua; PhD in Molecular Biology from Rutgers; PhD in CS from UC Berkeley (2004). CMU professor (2004+); created the SAILING Lab; co-founded Petuum Inc. (2016, $93M from SoftBank). Appointed President of MBZUAI in January 2021. Co-founded GenBio AI (2024). AAAI Fellow (2016), IEEE Fellow (2019).

Affiliations

  • MBZUAI — President
    Formerly: Carnegie Mellon (Professor)