MBZUAI End of Year celebratory lunch 2021

MBZUAI President Eric Xing closed the academic year with a celebratory lunch for faculty and staff on the university’s Masdar City campus on December 13.

Xing highlighted a year of accomplishments for MBZUAI including research publishing, academic awards, student accomplishments and more.

The university faculty has more than doubled in size in the past 12 months, adding faculty chairs in Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision. The university has seen 14 faculty hires in 2021 from institutions such as Oxford, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, and more.

There has also been a sharp increase in interest and engagement from graduating students from top universities across the globe, which has increased the caliber of applications being received.