Eric Xing
Eric P. Xing is a computer scientist specializing in statistical machine learning and probabilistic graphical models. He serves as President of the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in Abu Dhabi, a position he has held since January 2021, and is also a professor at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science. He is best known for his foundational contributions to machine learning algorithms and distributed systems, as well as for co-founding the AI companies Petuum and GenBio AI, the latter of which aims to create AI-driven digital organisms for modeling medical treatments.
“The scientists describe the project as a kind of flight simulator for medicine. Scientists will be able to run experiments on biology, like altering a gene or introducing a new drug to a cell, before attempting those experiments in the real world.”
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