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 the development of machine learning and statistical methodology, and large-scale distributed computational system and architectures, for solving problems involving automated learning, reasoning, and decision-making in in artificial, biological, and social systems. In recent years, he has been focusing on building large language models, world models, agent models, and foundation models for biology. Prof. Xing has served on the editorial boards of several leading journals including JASA, AOAS, JMLR; was a recipient of several awards including NSF Career, Sloan, Carnegie Science Award, and best papers in conferences such as ACL, ISMB, NeurIPS, and OSDI; and is a fellow of several societies including AAAI, ACM, ASA, IEEE, and IMS.