Professor Eric Xing is the President of the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence and a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His main research interests are in the development of machine learning and statistical methodology, as well as large-scale distributed computational systems and architectures, for solving problems involving automated learning, reasoning and decision-making in artificial, biological and social systems. In recent years, he has been focused on building large language models, world models, agent models and foundation models for biology. Professor Xing completed his undergraduate study at Tsinghua University and holds a PhD in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from the State University of New Jersey and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Xing has served on the editorial boards of several leading journals, including JASA, AOAS and JMLR; is a recipient of several awards, including NSF CAREER, Sloan and Carnegie Science, and Best Paper in conferences such as ACL, ISMB, NeurIPS and OSDI; and is a fellow of several societies, including AAAI, ACM, ASA, IEEE and IMS.