our team

Meet the incredible individuals that make our organization thrive. Each member brings a unique set of skills, expertise, and passion to the table, united by a common goal: to deliver excellence in everything we do. Meet the incredible individuals that make our organization thrive. Each member brings a unique set of skills, expertise, and passion to the table, united by a common goal: to deliver excellence in everything we do.Meet the incredible individuals that make our organization thrive. Each member brings a unique set of skills, expertise, and passion to the table, united by a common goal: to deliver excellence in everything we do.

Our Core team

Prof. Hao Li

Director of the MBZUAI Metaverse Center,
Associate Professor of Computer Vision

Li is CEO and co-founder of Pinscreen, a startup that builds cutting edge AI-driven virtual avatar technologies, as well as associate professor at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).

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Prof. Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Director of the MBZUAI Metaverse Center, Professor of Computer Vision

El Saddik’s research focus is on the establishment of digital twins to enhance the quality of life of citizens using artificial intelligence (AI), as well as multimedia computing and communications, and extended reality (XR) including haptics/AR/VR.

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Dr. Xiaodan Liang

Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Vision

Liang’s research is focused on developing interpretable and explainable neural-symbolic reasoning techniques for boosting vision and cross-modal understanding tasks (open-world detection/segmentation, robotic interaction and digital human) which will provide trustworthy and robust systems for real-world applications.