Andrew Ng

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Andrew Ng

Leading AI education and research

  • Co-founder of Google Brain
  • Professor at Stanford University
  • Founder of Coursera

Andrew Yan-Tak Ng, a British-American computer scientist, is renowned for his work in machine learning and artificial intelligence, founding Google Brain and Coursera.

Milestones

  • The Neural Network That Found Cats on the Internet
    The Deep Learning Revolution Research
    The Neural Network That Found Cats on the Internet

    Google's secret project used 16,000 processors to build a neural network that spontaneously learned to recognize cats from unlabeled YouTube videos — proving unsupervised deep learning could discover concepts on its own.

    2012