Andrew Ng
Andrew Yan-Tak Ng (Chinese: 吳恩達; born 1976) is a British-American computer scientist and technology entrepreneur focusing on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). Ng was a cofounder and head of Google Brain and was the former Chief Scientist at Baidu, building the company's Artificial Intelligence Group into a team of several thousand people.
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| Born | Andrew Yan-Tak Ng April 18, 1976 United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Raffles Institution |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (PhD) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS) Carnegie Mellon University (BS) |
| Known for | Artificial intelligence, deep learning, MOOC, education technology |
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| Children | 2 |
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| Fields | Artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision |
| Institutions | Stanford University Google Brain Coursera cofounder Baidu Research |
| Thesis | Shaping and Policy Search in Reinforcement Learning (2003) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael I. Jordan |
| Notable students | Ian Goodfellow David Stavens Pieter Abbeel Quoc Viet Le Ashutosh Saxena |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 吴恩达 | ||||||||||
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Ng is an adjunct professor at Stanford University (formerly associate professor and Director of its Stanford AI Lab or SAIL). Ng has also worked in the field of online education, cofounding Coursera and DeepLearning.AI. He has spearheaded many efforts to "democratize deep learning" teaching over 2.5 million students through his online courses. Ng is renowned globally in computer science, recognized in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2012 and Fast Company's Most Creative People in 2014. His influence extends to being named in the Time100 AI Most Influential People in 2023.
In 2018, he launched and currently heads the AI Fund, initially a $175-million investment fund for backing artificial intelligence startups. He has founded Landing AI, which provides AI-powered SaaS products.
On April 11, 2024, Amazon announced the appointment of Andrew Ng to its board of directors.