Andrew Ng

2014 Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business 2015 World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders 2023 Time 100 Most Influential People in AI[1] Andrew Yan-Tak Ng (Chinese: 吳恩達; born April 18, 1976[2]) is a British-American computer scientist and technology entrepreneur focusing on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI).[3] Ng was a cofounder and head of Google Brain and was the former Chief Scientist at Baidu.[4] 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 online education, cofounding Coursera and DeepLearning.AI.[5] He has spearheaded many efforts to "democratize deep learning" teaching over 8 million students through his online courses.[6][3][7] 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.[7]