Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Machine Learning, MBZUAI
Dr. Pengtao Xie is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Machine Learning Department at Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).
Biography
Dr. Pengtao Xie joined MBZUAI as an Adjunct Professor in the Machine Learning Department at the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI). Dr. Xie is an assistant professor at UC San Diego. He received his PhD from the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University in 2018. His research interests are machine learning inspired by humans’ learning skills (especially classroom learning skills), such as learning by progressive examination, interleaving learning, small-group learning, learning by teaching, etc., and their applications in healthcare.
Dr. Pengtao serves as area chair for ICML, CVPR, ICCV, NAACL, etc. His PhD thesis was selected as a top-5 finalist for the AMIA Doctoral Dissertation Award. He is the recipient of the Amazon AWS Faculty Award, Tencent AI-Lab Faculty Award, Tencent WeChat Faculty Award, the Innovator Award presented by the Pittsburgh Business Times, the Siebel Scholars award.
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About Pengtao Xie
Dr. Pengtao Xie is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Machine Learning Department at Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).
Biography
Dr. Pengtao Xie joined MBZUAI as an Adjunct Professor in the Machine Learning Department at the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI). Dr. Xie is an assistant professor at UC San Diego. He received his PhD from the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University in 2018. His research interests are machine learning inspired by humans’ learning skills (especially classroom learning skills), such as learning by progressive examination, interleaving learning, small-group learning, learning by teaching, etc., and their applications in healthcare.
Dr. Pengtao serves as area chair for ICML, CVPR, ICCV, NAACL, etc. His PhD thesis was selected as a top-5 finalist for the AMIA Doctoral Dissertation Award. He is the recipient of the Amazon AWS Faculty Award, Tencent AI-Lab Faculty Award, Tencent WeChat Faculty Award, the Innovator Award presented by the Pittsburgh Business Times, the Siebel Scholars award.
| Present | Adjunct Assistant Professor, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence ‐ Department of Machine Learning | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Professional Service and Affiliations
| 2021 | Area Chair, Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) | 2021 | Area Chair, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) | 2021 | Area Chair, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) | 2021 | Area Chair, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) | 2021 | Area Chair, North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) |
Honors and Awards
- Finalist (top 5) for AMIA Doctoral Dissertation Award
- Tencent AI-Lab Faculty Award
- Tencent WeChat Faculty Award
- The Innovator Award presented by the Pittsburgh Business Times
- The Siebel Scholars award