Andrew Yan-Tak Ng

Andrew Yan-Tak Ng (Chinese: 吳恩達; born 1976) is a Chinese English computer scientist, executive, investor, and entrepreneur. Ng co-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 and deeplearning.ai. He launched and heads AI Fund, a $175 million investment fund to back artificial intelligence startups. Ng was born in London 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 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1998 and received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002. He started working at Stanford University in 2002. He currently lives in Los Altos Hills, California. He married Carol E. Reiley in 2014.