AI Leaders

Andrew Ng

Founder · DeepLearning.AI / AI Fund / Landing AI
United StatesFounderResearcherInvestorAI EducationMachine LearningApplied AI

Andrew Ng co-founded Coursera and Google Brain, led AI at Baidu, and founded DeepLearning.AI, Landing AI and AI Fund. His Machine Learning course is among the most-taken online courses in history, and he is the leading proponent of data-centric AI — improving datasets rather than only model architectures.

Education: PhD, UC Berkeley · MS, MIT · BS, Carnegie Mellon University

Career timeline

  1. 2011
    Google Brain
    Co-founds Google's deep learning team.
  2. 2012
    Coursera
    Co-founds Coursera with Daphne Koller.
  3. 2014
    Baidu Chief Scientist
    Leads Baidu's AI Group including the Silicon Valley AI Lab.
  4. 2017
    DeepLearning.AI
    Launches the Deep Learning Specialization.
  5. 2021
    Data-centric AI
    Popularises systematically improving data quality over model tinkering.

Major achievements

  • Google Brain
  • Coursera
  • Deep Learning Specialization
  • The Batch newsletter

Public perspectives

Blog · 6/16/2021

Argues most production AI teams gain more from systematically improving data quality and labelling consistency than from further model architecture changes — the data-centric AI movement.

DeepLearning.AI — The Batch

Official sources

DeepLearning.AI The Batch Personal site