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Eric Poe Xing
Born
Shanghai, China
NationalityAmerican
Alma materTsinghua University
Rutgers University
University of California, Berkeley
SpouseWei Wu [1]
AwardsIMS Fellow (2023)
ACM Fellow (2022)
ASA Fellow (2022)
Carnegie Institution for Science Award (2019)
IEEE Fellow (2018)
AAAI Fellow (2016)
Member of the DARPA (ISAT) Advisory Group (2011-2014)
Air Force Young Investigator Award (2010-2015)
Sloan Fellowship (2008-2010)
NSF Career Award (2006-2011)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
Machine Learning
Computational Biology
InstitutionsMohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Carnegie Mellon University
Stanford University
ThesisProbabilistic graphical models and algorithms for genomic analysis (2004)
Doctoral advisorRichard Karp
Michael I. Jordan
Stuart J. Russell
Websitewww.cs.cmu.edu/~epxing/

Eric Poe Xing is an American computer scientist, academic administrator, and entrepreneur. Prior to his appointment as President of MBZUAI, Xing was a professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and researcher in machine learning, computational biology, and statistical methodology.[2][3] Xing is also the Founder, Chairman, Chief Scientist, and former CEO of Petuum Inc.[4]

Xing became president of Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in January 2021.[5]

Biography

Xing received a B.Sc. in physics at Tsinghua University in 1993, and a Ph.D. in molecular biology at Rutgers University in 1999 and a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley in 2004.

Xing became a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University in 2004, directing the SAILING Lab[6] whose research spans a broad spectrum of topics ranging from theoretical foundations to real-world applications in machine learning, distributed systems, computer vision, natural language processing, and computational biology. He became a tenured professor in 2011 and became a full professor in 2014.

In 2010, Xing served as a visiting research professor at Meta, formerly known as Facebook, as well as a visiting professor at Stanford University’s Department of Statistics.

Xing is a board member of the International Machine Learning Society. Starting in 2014 he served as the program chair and in 2019 began duties as general chair of the International Conference of Machine Learning (ICML).

In 2016, Xing co-founded Petuum Inc., a US-based startup dedicated to democratizing the ownership and use of AI systems and solutions and make even the most advanced AI technology accessible and affordable. In 2016 and 2017, Petuum was named by CB Insight as one of the AI 100 around the world.[7] In 2017, Petuum raised $93 million in a round of venture funding from SoftBank.[8] With his collaborators, Xing developed the Petuum framework for distributed machine learning with massive data, big models, and a wide spectrum of algorithms.[9]

In January 2021, Xing became President of the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI),[10] a graduate, research university focused on AI, computer science, and digital technologies across industrial sectors.

Honors and awards

Xing is a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award,[11] the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship,[12] the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award, the IBM Open Collaborative Research Faculty Award, the Carnegie Science Award, as well as several best paper and dissertation awards in leading CS and AI conferences including OSDI, NeurIPS, KDD, ACL, ISMB.

In 2016, he was elected a Fellow of the Association of Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).[13] In 2019, he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)[14] for "contributions to machine learning algorithms and systems." In 2022 he was named as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association[15] and an ACM Fellow.[16]

See also

References

  1. ^ Wei Wu CMU
  2. ^ Xing, Eric P. "Eric P. Xing Homepage". cs.cmu.edu. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
  3. ^ Xing, Eric P. (2012). "ACL 2012 Tutorial Eric P. Xing". acl2012.org. Archived from the original on 8 January 2015. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
  4. ^ "Petuum secures $93M Series B to push AI into the mainstream". TechCrunch. 10 October 2017. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  5. ^ "MBZUAI president lays out bold vision to put UAE 'on map of AI superpowers'". The National. 22 April 2021. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
  6. ^ "Sailing Lab". sailing-lab.github.io. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  7. ^ "AI 100: The Artificial Intelligence Startups Redefining Industries". CB Insights Research. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Xing, Eric P. (2013). "Petuum is a distributed machine learning framework". github.io. Archived from the original on 2014-12-16. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
  10. ^ "Eric Xing - MBZUAI". Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  11. ^ "SCS FACULTY AWARDS". www.cs.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  12. ^ "SCS FACULTY AWARDS". www.cs.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  13. ^ "AAAI Fellows Elected in 2016". AAAI. 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ "ASA 2022 Fellows" (PDF). American Statistical Association. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
  16. ^ "Global computing association names 57 fellows for outstanding contributions that propel technology today". Association for Computing Machinery. January 18, 2023. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
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