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Andrew Ng
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Andrew Ng

CEO
Landing AI
Andrew Ng has had a rich career in the technology industry , including as Co-founder and Head of Google Brain , former Chief Scientist at Baidu where he built the company ’ s AI sector into a team of several people , and co-founder of Coursera . Now , he is the CEO of Landing AI , a company that supports others with limited datasets to move AI projects from proof-of-concept to full-scale production and realise the business and operational value of AI .
In 2011 , Ng led the development of Stanford University ’ s main MOOC ( Massive Open Online Courses ) platform and also taught an online Machine Learning class that was offered to over 100,000 students , leading to the founding of Coursera , a US-based massive open online course provider . The British-born entrepreneur is also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford , and has successfully spearheaded many efforts to " democratise deep learning " teaching over 2.5 million students through his online courses .
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