Andrew Yan-Tak Ng (Chinese: ???; born 1976) is a Chinese American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is one of the most influential minds in Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning. Ng founded and led Google Brain and was a former VP & Chief Scientist at Baidu, building the company's Artificial Intelligence Group into several thousand people. He is an adjunct professor (formerly associate professor and Director of the AI Lab) at Stanford University. Ng is also an early pioneer in online learning - which led to the co-founding of Coursera.
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Biography
Ng was born in the UK in 1976. His parents were both from Hong Kong. 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 Los Altos Hills, California. He married Carol E. Reiley in 2014.
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Career
Ng was a professor at Stanford University Department of Computer Science and Department of Electrical Engineering. He became Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab where he taught students and undertook research related to data mining and machine learning. His deep learning course at Stanford is the most popular course offered on campus with over 1000 students enrolled.
From 2011 to 2012, he worked at Google, where he founded and was director of Google Brain Deep Learning Project. In 2012, he co-founded and was CEO of Coursera which offers free online courses for everyone after over 100,000 students registered for Ng's popular course. Today, several million people have taken the online course. In 2014, he joined Baidu as Chief Scientist, and carried out research related to big data and A.I. In March 2017, he announced his resignation from Baidu.
He soon afterwards launched Deeplearning.ai, an online curriculum of classes. Then Ng launched Landing.ai, bringing AI to manufacturing factories. Landing.ai's first public partnership is with FoxConn.
In 2018, Ng unveiled the AI Fund, raising $175 million to invest in new startups. He is also the chairman of Woebot and on the board of drive.ai.
He also wrote a book "Machine Learning Yearning", a practical guide for those interested in machine learning which he distributed for free.
Research
Ng researches primarily in machine learning and deep learning. His early work includes the Stanford Autonomous Helicopter project, which developed one of the most capable autonomous helicopters in the world, and the STAIR (STanford Artificial Intelligence Robot) project, which resulted in ROS, a widely used open-source robotics software platform.
In 2011, Ng founded the Google Brain project at Google, which developed very large scale artificial neural networks using Google's distributed computer infrastructure. Among its notable results was a neural network trained using deep learning algorithms on 16,000 CPU cores, that learned to recognize higher-level concepts, such as cats, after watching only YouTube videos, and without ever having been told what a "cat" is. The project's technology is currently also used in the Android Operating System's speech recognition system.
He together with David M. Blei and Michael I. Jordan, coauthored the influential paper that introduced Latent Dirichlet allocation.
Online education
Ng started the Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) program, which in 2008 placed a number of Stanford courses online, for free. Ng taught one of these courses, Machine Learning, which consisted of video lectures by him, along with the student materials used in the Stanford CS229 class.
The "applied" version of the Stanford class (CS229a) was hosted on ml-class.org and started in October 2011, with over 100,000 students registered for its first iteration; the course featured quizzes and graded programming assignments and became one of the first successful MOOCs made by Stanford professors. His work subsequently led to the founding of Coursera in 2012.
Publications and awards
Ng is also the author or co-author of over 150 published papers in machine learning, robotics, and related fields. His work in computer vision and deep learning has been frequently featured in press releases and reviews.
- 2007. Sloan Fellowship
- 2008. MIT Technology Review TR35
- 2009. IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
- 2013. Times 100 Most Influential People
- 2013. Fortune's 40 under 40
- 2013. CNN 10
- 2014. Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business
See also
- Robot Operating System
- Latent Dirichlet allocation
References
External links
- Homepage
- STAIR Homepage
- Publications
- Academic Genealogy
- Machine Learning (CS 229) Video Lecture
- Lecture videos
- From Self-Flying Helicopters to Classrooms of the Future
- Coursera-Leadership
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