Andrew Ng
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| Native name | 吳恩達 (traditional) 吴恩达 (simplified) Wú Ēndá (pinyin) |
| Born | Andrew Yan-Tak Ng 1976 (age 40–41) United Kingdom |
| Residence | United States |
| Fields | Artificial intelligence |
| Institutions |
Baidu Research Stanford University |
| Alma mater |
Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, Raffles Institution |
| Thesis | Shaping and Policy Search in Reinforcement Learning (2003) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael I. Jordan |
| Known for | Deep Learning, MOOC |
| Notable awards | IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (2009) |
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Website Stanford University - Andrew Ng |
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 Interview with Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng, Degree of Freedom |
Andrew Yan-Tak Ng (Chinese: 吳恩達; born 1976) is a Chinese American computer scientist. He is the former chief scientist at Baidu, where he led the company's Artificial Intelligence Group. He is an adjunct professor (formerly associate professor) at Stanford University. Ng is also the co-founder and chairman of Coursera, an online education platform.
Ng was born in the UK in 1976. His parents were both Chinese. He spent time in Hong Kong and Singapore and later graduated from Raffles Institution in Singapore in 1992. In 1997, he received his undergraduate degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ng earned his master's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1998 and received his PhD from University of California, Berkeley in 2002. He started working at Stanford University during that year and currently lives in Palo Alto, California. He married Carol E. Reiley in 2014.
Andrew was a professor at Stanford University Department of Computer Science. He taught students and undertook research related to data mining and machine learning. From 2011 to 2012, he worked at Google, where he founded and led the Google Brain Deep Learning Project. In 2012, he co-foundedCoursera to offer free online courses for everyone. In 2014, he joinedBaidu as Chief Scientist, and carried out research related to big data and A.I. In March 2017, he announced his resignation from Baidu.
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