Andrew Ng
Age: 38
Current job: Head of research for Chinese search engine Baidu, overseeing labs in Sunnyvale and Beijing; also chairman and cofounder of Coursera
Career:
— Taught and conducted research in artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics at Stanford starting in 2002; currently on leave as associate professor of computer science and director of Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Lab.
— Helped launch an online education program at Stanford and later cofounded Coursera, a venture-funded online education startup.
— Worked at Google X, the company’s experimental division, where he helped lead the Google Brain project to develop large-scale neural network technology, now used for speech recognition in Google’s Android mobile operating system.
Education: Earned bachelor’s degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT and Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley.
Personal: Born in the United Kingdom, lives in Silicon Valley.
Sources: Staff research
