MBZUAI president lays out bold vision to put UAE 'on map of AI superpowers'
“It’s very simple to say but very hard to execute,” he said. “My vision is to really use this opportunity to turn MBZUAI into one of the major players, and use this as a platform to train talent and the workforce for the local economy and for the community.” Prior to joining MBZUAI in November, Dr Xing was associate head of research at the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon University in the US, one of the leading AI research institutes in the world. He said his first priority for MBZUAI was to develop a “critical mass” of research output and impact in the shortest a...
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