UAE: MBZUAI ranked 30th globally in universities specialising in Artificial Intelligence

UAE: MBZUAI ranked 30th globally in universities specialising in Artificial Intelligence

The institution was founded just two years ago

Published: Mon 20 Jun 2022, 6:23 PM

The Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) has been ranked 127 globally among institutions that conduct research in computer science including AI, systems, theory, and "interdisciplinary" areas such as robotics, computer graphics, visualization, and more.

This ranking comes in just a short, two-year time span since the university was founded.

The ranking places MBZUAI alongside institutions such as Notre Dame, the University of Liverpool, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Osaka University, Ecole Normale Supérieure and other prestigious schools.

In the areas that MBZUAI currently focuses on—artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, and natural language processing—MBZUAI ranks 30 globally ahead of several renowned research universities worldwide such as University of Michigan, Georgia Tech, and University of Toronto in North America; Imperial College London, EPFL, Max Planck Society in Europe; University of Tokyo, Seoul National University, and University of Sydney in Asia Pacific. MBZUAI can now claim to be the top ranked CS institution in the Arab World, and in the Middle East and Africa (CSRankings includes Israel as part of Europe).

Dr. Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and Chairman of MBZUAI, said: “In 2019,