Andrew Ng

For the physicist, see Andrew Ng (physicist).

Andrew Ng
Ng in 2017
Born
Andrew Yan-Tak Ng

(1976-04-18) April 18, 1976 (age 48)[citation needed]
United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
EducationRaffles Institution
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS)
Carnegie Mellon University (BS)
Known forArtificial intelligence, deep learning, MOOC, education technology
Spouse
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(m. 2014)​
Children2
MotherTisa Ho
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision
InstitutionsStanford University
Google Brain
Coursera cofounder
Baidu Research
ThesisShaping and Policy Search in Reinforcement Learning (2003)
Doctoral advisorMichael I. Jordan
Notable studentsIan Goodfellow
David Stavens
Pieter Abbeel
Quoc Viet Le
Ashutosh Saxena
Websitewww.andrewng.org
Andrew Ng
Traditional Chinese吳恩達
Simplified Chinese吴恩达
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinWú Ēndá
Yue: Cantonese
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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).[2] 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.[3]

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.[4] He has spearheaded many efforts to "democratize deep learning" teaching over 8 million students through his online courses.[5][2][6] 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.[6]

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.[7]

On April 11, 2024, Amazon announced the appointment of Ng to its board of directors.[8]

  1. ^ "Andrew Ng". Time Magazine. September 7, 2023. Retrieved November 7, 2023.
  2. ^ a b Terdiman, Daniel (March 22, 2017). "Baidu's head of artificial intelligence is stepping down". Fast Company. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  3. ^ Mozur, Paul (March 22, 2017). "A.I. Expert at Baidu, Andrew Ng, Resigns From Chinese Search Giant". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  4. ^ "Andrew Ng – Stanford University". Coursera. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
  5. ^ Andrew Ng at Amazon re: MARS 2019, September 9, 2019, archived from the original on December 20, 2021, retrieved November 20, 2019
  6. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference :9 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "Home". Landing AI. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  8. ^ "Amazon adds AI expert Andrew Ng to board as GenAI race heats up". Reuters. April 11, 2024.