Top artificial intelligence expert to lead first AI university in Abu Dhabi

Top artificial intelligence expert to lead first AI university in Abu Dhabi

The Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), the world's first artificial intelligence (AI) university, has appointed renowned AI academic Professor Dr Eric Xing as president.

Xing will lead MBZUAI as the first intake of graduate students is set to commence studies in January.

Xing takes the reins from interim president Professor Sir Michael Brady, who remains on the MBZUAI board of trustees.

Ranked as one of the top computer science professors worldwide, Xing joins MBZUAI from Carnegie Mellon University in the US while he has also spent time as visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University, and as visiting Research Professor at Facebook.

He has authored or contributed to more than 370 cited research papers and reports and his research has been cited more than 35,000 times by leading academics and academic journals.

Xing is also the founder, chairman and chief scientist of Petuum, a US-based start-up that builds standardised AI development platforms and operating systems for broad and general industrial AI applications. Under his leadership, Petuum has raised over $120 million funding since 2016.

Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and chairman of the MBZUAI board of trustees

Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced