AI Pioneer · Entrepreneur · Investor · Educator
Andrew Ng is a leading artificial intelligence pioneer, entrepreneur, investor and educator whose work has helped shape the development and adoption of modern AI.
He is the Founder of DeepLearning.AI, Managing General Partner at AI Fund, Managing Partner at AI Aspire, Executive Chairman of LandingAI, Chairman and Co-Founder of Coursera, and an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University.
Ng was the founding lead of Google's Google Brain team, which played a significant role in advancing Google's artificial intelligence capabilities. He later served as Vice President and Chief Scientist at Baidu, where he led a 1,300-person AI team responsible for the company's AI technology and strategy. He also previously served as Director of the Stanford AI Lab.
Through DeepLearning.AI, founded in 2017, Ng has worked to make high-quality AI education accessible to a global audience. His courses and programs have reached more than seven million learners, building on his earlier Stanford machine-learning course, which enrolled more than 100,000 students when it launched online in 2011.
His entrepreneurial work spans AI education, enterprise AI, venture building and AI strategy. Through AI Fund, he works with entrepreneurs to build AI companies, while AI Aspire focuses on helping enterprises move beyond AI experimentation toward scalable business transformation.
Ng has authored or co-authored more than 200 research papers covering machine learning, robotics, computer vision and natural language processing. His research and practical work have included deep learning, reinforcement learning and data-centric AI.
Today, his work focuses on accelerating responsible AI adoption, building AI companies, advancing AI education and helping organizations understand how artificial intelligence can create practical business value.