Abu Dhabi’s Mohamed bin Zayed College of Synthetic Intelligence (MBZUAI) has been recognised globally for its distinctive mannequin of academia targeted on AI analysis and purposes alongside tutorial excellence. It’s the world’s first graduate analysis college devoted to synthetic intelligence.
The college not too long ago introduced that it welcomed 127 new college students for its fall 2022 semester. With the brand new joiners, the college’s scholar inhabitants now stands at 259.
Educational seats had been aggressive with a complete of three,668 purposes acquired and an admission price of three.73 per cent for its present choices throughout three departments, together with grasp’s and doctoral diploma programmes in laptop imaginative and prescient, machine studying, and pure language processing.
New joiners included 22 doctoral college students and 105 grasp’s college students.
Because of the top quality of college and their printed work, the college has continued to draw high college students from over 25 international locations together with new locations similar to Japan, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, and Iraq. 23 college students come from the highest 100 CS-ranked universities.
Round 32 per cent of the brand new college students are feminine, in step with the college’s mission to encourage extra girls to proceed their post-graduate schooling and enter academia or analysis.
“As a analysis college, one in all our central contributions is within the improvement of AI expertise — rising and sustaining a pipeline of future builders, innovators, thinkers, and leaders within the subject,” MBZUAI president, Professor Eric Xing, mentioned.
Among the many newly welcomed college students are 30 UAE nationals who, together with their fellow college students, will assist the event of 4IR (fourth industrial revolution) options and the UAE’s Nationwide Technique for AI 2031.
MBZUAI ranks 30 globally in its areas of focus — synthetic intelligence, laptop imaginative and prescient, machine studying and pure language processing — a rating that places the college forward of famend analysis universities worldwide, similar to the College of Michigan, Georgia Tech, and the College of Toronto in North America; Imperial School London, EPFL, and the Max Planck Society in Europe, amongst others.
In different information, the college is collaborating with IBM to advance AI analysis. Central to the collaboration is the institution of a brand new AI Centre of Excellence to be primarily based on the college’s Masdar Metropolis campus.
Learn: IBM and MBZUAI signal settlement to advance AI analysis with new centre.