Eric Xing
| Eric Poe Xing | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | Shanghai, China |
| Residence | Pittsburgh, PA |
| Fields |
Computer Science Machine Learning Computational Biology |
| Institutions |
Carnegie Mellon University Stanford University |
| Alma mater |
Tsinghua University Rutgers University University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Probabilistic graphical models and algorithms for genomic analysis (2004) |
| Doctoral advisor |
Richard Karp Michael I. Jordan Stuart J. Russell |
| Notable awards |
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) |
| Spouse | Wei Wu [1] |
|
Website www | |
Eric Xing is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and researcher in machine learning, computational biology, and statistical methodology.[2][3]
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.
He has won several awards, including recipient of the NSF Career Award and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.
Academic life
Xing with his collaborators developed the Petuum framework for distributed machine learning with massive data, big models, and a wide spectrum of algorithms.[4]
Honors and awards
In 2016, he was elected Fellow of AAAI. [5]
See also
References
- ↑ Wei Wu CMU
- ↑ Xing, Eric P. "Eric P. Xing Homepage". cs.cmu.edu. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
- ↑ Xing, Eric P. (2012). "ACL 2012 Tutorial Eric P. Xing". acl2012.org. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
- ↑ Xing, Eric P. (2013). "Petuum is a distributed machine learning framework". github.io. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
- ↑ "AAAI Fellows Elected in 2016". AAAI. 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
External links
- Eric Xing (at Carnegie Mellon University )
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