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Residence
  
Pittsburgh, PA

Spouse
  
Wei Wu

Name
  
Eric Xing


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Institutions
  
Carnegie Mellon University Stanford University

Thesis
  
Probabilistic graphical models and algorithms for genomic analysis (2004)

Notable awards
  
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)

Alma mater
  
University of California, Berkeley, Rutgers University

Fields
  
Computer Science, Machine learning

Institution
  
Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University

Doctoral advisor
  
Richard M. Karp, Michael I. Jordan, Stuart J. Russell

Distinguished lecturer eric xing strategies principles for distributed machine learning


Eric Xing is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and researcher in machine learning, computational biology, and statistical methodology.

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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.

Honors and awards

In 2016, he was elected Fellow of AAAI.

References

Eric Xing Wikipedia