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Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Arabic: جامعة محمد بن زايد للذكاء الاصطناعي
TypePublic university
EstablishedApril 2020; 6 years ago (2020-04)
ChairmanKhaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak
PresidentEric Xing
Location
Masdar City
,
Abu Dhabi
,
United Arab Emirates

24°25′58″N 54°37′05″E / 24.43278°N 54.61806°E / 24.43278; 54.61806
LanguageEnglish
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The Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) is a public university in the Masdar City community of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It was granted a university license by the UAE Ministry of Education in April 2020. The university launched its graduate programs in January 2021 and its undergraduate program in 2025.

History

The establishment of MBZUAI is part of the United Arab Emirates' strategy for Artificial Intelligence 2031. This policy seeks to "position the country as a global AI leader", and included the appointment of the world's first Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence.[1][2]

Initiated in October 2019,[3][4] the university was named after Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and the board of trustees was chaired by Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber,[5] while its advisory board was chaired by Omar Al Olama, the UAE's first Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence.[5]

The Ministry of Education accredited six MBZUAI graduate programs in February 2020 and granted a university license in April 2020.[6] The initial class of graduate students were to start coursework in the fall of 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic this was delayed to January 2021.[6][2][4] At the time classes began the university had 11 faculty members and 78 students (13 PhD and 65 MSc) in machine learning and computer vision.[6][4] Due to pandemic restrictions the first classes were held online using Moodle software.[6] The first in-person classes began in the fall of 2021.[6]

The first cohort of MSc students graduated in January 2023.[7] By 2024, at least 25 additional faculty members had been recruited, and departments had been established in robotics, computer science, and statistics and data science.[8] The first undergraduate program at MBZUAI, the "Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence (Engineering/Business)" degree program, was introduced in March 2025.[9][10][11]

Campus

Multi-use hall on the MBZUAI campus

MBZUAI is located in Masdar City, a sustainable urban community designed as a smart innovation cluster.[3][12] The campus uses low-carbon transportation methods, including electric buses and golf carts.[13]

When classes began in 2021, the university had only six classrooms, most of which could accommodate class sizes of no larger than 20 students.[6] Shortly afterward the classrooms were redesigned to better accommodate remote and hybrid learning options and more flexible layouts, such as having an instructor in one classroom broadcast a lecture to the other classrooms and to online students.[6]

The campus also includes a gymnasium, swimming pool, and squash and badminton courts.[14]

Administration

The current president, Eric Xing,[15] joined in January 2021. Sir J. Michael Brady served as the founding, interim president.[16][5] Professor Ling Shao was the founding provost and executive vice president.[17] Timothy Baldwin was appointed provost in April 2024.[8] As of 2025, the Board of Trustees was chaired by Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak.[9]

Academics

The goal of the university is "producing a new generation of AI leaders and experts".[1] According to The Economist, MBZUAI and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology "have poached star professors from illustrious institutions such as the University of California, Berkeley, and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh".[18]

MBZUAI provides undergraduate, master's, and Ph.D. programs in artificial intelligence, computer science, computer vision, machine learning, natural language processing, robotics, and statistics & data science.[19] As of 2025 the institution had 84 faculty members and over 200 postdocs and researchers.[13]

In October 2021, the university launched a 12-week Executive Program for leaders implementing AI in their organizations. In March 2022, the university graduated the first class of participants.[20][21]

Academic programs

MBZUAI offers undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in artificial intelligence and related disciplines.[22] The UAE Ministry of Education accredited the university's first six graduate programs in February 2020.[6] Graduate teaching began in January 2021—delayed from the autumn of 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic—with an initial intake of 78 students in machine learning and computer vision.[6] The first master's cohort graduated in January 2023.[7] Academic affairs are overseen by the provost; Timothy Baldwin was appointed to the role in April 2024,[8] succeeding founding provost Ling Shao.[23]

Undergraduate

The university introduced its first undergraduate degree, the Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence, in March 2025.[9] The program is offered in two streams—Business and Engineering—and follows a "3+1" structure in which accelerated coursework is followed by an industry co-op placement in the final year.[24]

Master's programs

MBZUAI offers Master of Science (M.Sc.) degrees in the following fields:[25]

  • Computational Biology (inaugural cohort 2026)
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Vision
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Robotics
  • Statistics and Data Science (inaugural cohort 2025)

The university additionally offers a Master in Applied Artificial Intelligence (MAAI), a program aimed at technology professionals working in the UAE.[26]

Doctoral programs

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees are offered in:[27]

  • Computational Biology (inaugural cohort 2026)
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Vision
  • Human–Computer Interaction (inaugural cohort 2026)
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Robotics
  • Statistics and Data Science (inaugural cohort 2025)

Departments

Teaching and research are organized into departments covering computational biology, computer science, computer vision, human–computer interaction, machine learning, natural language processing, robotics, and statistics and data science.[22] According to the university, machine learning is its largest department, and a dedicated Robotics Research Lab is scheduled to open in 2026.[25]

Accreditation

MBZUAI is licensed by the Commission for Academic Accreditation (CAA)—the federal agency of the UAE Ministry of Education that licenses higher-education institutions and accredits their individual academic programs—and the university is listed in the CAA's national register of licensed institutions.[28]

The Ministry of Education accredited the university's first six graduate programs—master's and doctoral degrees in machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing—in February 2020, and MBZUAI received its institutional license in April 2020.[6][29] Programs in robotics and computer science were accredited subsequently.[30]

Under MBZUAI's academic-programs policy, established programs that have graduated more than two cohorts are required to apply for international accreditation or certification where applicable.[31]

Research

The university's research program has four pillars: improving services offered by the public and private sectors, enhancing efficiencies and improving productivity in industry and manufacturing, support new and emerging high-value sectors, and optimizing environmental sustainability.[4] MBZUAI has a joint AI research program with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.[32]

MBZUAI has a dedicated research hub on foundation models.[13] It coordinated the development of Jais, a large language model for Arabic, to be used by the Emirati government for administrative functions.[3] Other research hubs include the Center for Integrative Artificial Intelligence, the Metaverse Center,[33] and the Institute of Digital Public Health.[34] It also has a business incubator[35] and a joint lab with the Abu Dhabi Digital Authority to support government service initiatives.[36]

Research institutes and centers

Alongside its academic departments, MBZUAI operates several research institutes that apply artificial intelligence to specific domains.

The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM), launched in May 2025, develops large-scale AI foundation models and maintains research sites in Abu Dhabi, Paris, and Silicon Valley.[37] The institute emphasizes open development, releasing models and training materials publicly through its LLM360 initiative.[37] Its projects include Jais, a family of open-weight Arabic large language models developed with Inception (a G42 company) and Cerebras Systems—whose 70-billion-parameter second generation, Jais 2, was released in December 2025—and K2 Think, an open-source AI reasoning model.[38][39]

The Institute for Agriculture and Artificial Intelligence (IAAI), launched in December 2025 in collaboration with the International Affairs Office at the UAE Presidential Court and the Gates Foundation, is a digital advisory hub that applies AI to agriculture. It aims to strengthen global food security by providing AI-based advisory tools, training, and technical assistance for smallholder farmers, and forms part of Abu Dhabi's AI for Agriculture Ecosystem.[40]

The Institute of Digital Public Health focuses on applications of AI in healthcare and public health.[41] The university also operates an Incubation and Entrepreneurship Center, which supports the commercialization of AI research and the development of startups.[42]

Notable research and publications

MBZUAI's faculty and students publish frequently at the leading artificial-intelligence conferences. The university had 34 papers accepted at the 2023 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) and 53 at the 2023 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)—a venue that accepts roughly a quarter of submitted papers—with its representation at such conferences increasing year over year.[43][44] Independent reporting has placed the university among the top 20 institutions worldwide by volume of AI-related publications.[45]

The university's research is concentrated in computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning, including work on causal inference. Among its prominent researchers are its president, Eric Xing, and Kun Zhang in machine learning; Fahad Khan and Salman Khan in computer vision, who have been among the most prolific contributors to CVPR; and Preslav Nakov and Timothy Baldwin in natural language processing. MBZUAI faculty have delivered oral and spotlight presentations at NeurIPS.[44][43] The university reports a research community of more than 100 staff, including postdoctoral researchers, research assistants, and visiting students.[46]

MBZUAI also conducts applied and collaborative research. Projects have included the use of machine learning and computer vision to detect cardiovascular disease from CT scans, carried out with the University of Oxford, and a partnership with the life-science AI platform BioMap on AI-based protein generation.[46] These complement the open-source foundation models developed at the university, including the Jais Arabic large language models[47] and the K2 Think reasoning system.[45]

Student life

The university provides graduate students with a full scholarship support package, including a monthly stipend, health insurance, and accommodations, "in exchange for full-time commitment to studying and researching in the field of AI".[48][49] This approach is designed to "attract students who would otherwise have gone to well-established hubs in the West or China".[50]

The 2024 intake included 209 students (147 MSc and 62 PhD) from 36 countries.[14] Many students are Chinese and 31% are women.[18][14] The student-faculty ratio is 5:1.[14]

As of 2024, 212 students had graduated from the master's and PhD programs.[14] Most stay in the region after graduation.[18] More than half pursue industry internships during their program, and many participate in hackathons or research conferences.[51]

Rankings

As a young, specialized graduate university, MBZUAI does not appear in the general world university league tables that assess comprehensive institutions; in the QS World University Rankings, for example, QS records it with "contributor" status rather than a ranked position.[52]

The university is more commonly assessed through CSRankings, a metrics-based system that ranks computer science institutions by the number of faculty publications at selective peer-reviewed conferences.[53] Within roughly two years of its 2019 founding, MBZUAI was ranked 127th in the world in computer science overall; in its areas of focus—artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, and natural language processing—it placed in the global top 30 and, after further faculty recruitment, the top 24.[54][55] By this measure the university has been described as the highest-ranked computer science institution in the Arab world and in the Middle East and Africa region.[54]

As of 2025–2026, independent reporting placed MBZUAI among the top 20 institutions worldwide for artificial intelligence on CSRankings.[56][57] Because CSRankings is based on publication counts and depends on the research areas and time period selected, the university's precise position varies between editions.[53]


See also

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