Andrew Ng

Andrew Ng is a Chinese-American data scientist. His primary focus is on machine learning and AI. He has triple major in undergraduate degree of computer science, statistics, and economics. He co-founded and led the Google brain and also worked at Baidu. He is currently a professor at Stanford university.

He is also the founder of coursera. He has a free online course of AI for everyone at coursera. He has also provided 2 free ebooks : “Landing AI Transformation Playbook “ and “Machine learning yearning”. In landing AI Transformation Playbook , he has explained the 5 main steps any company can take to make high advances in AI. In 2002 he received his Ph.D from UC Berkeley under the supervision of Michael I. Jordan. When people ask him that if the world gets so much engrossed in AI then time will come when there will be the world of robots and not mankind. His reply to this was that it’s like wondering about Mars getting overpopulated. What he meant to say was that we have not even made such advancements in AI and are yet to make so why waste time in thinking that it will fill the entire world with it.

He currently lives in Los Altos Hills, California. In 2008 his group was the first in US to use GPUs in deep learning. He has also helped making the face recognition feature in AI. And the AI was smart enough to see the difference between the an actual face and a photograph of the same face. When he started his course at coursera there were very less students however now there over millions of students enrolled in his course. Moreover, his website coursera is now one of the leading MOOCs in the world.

Andrew’s early projects includes Stanford Autonomous Helicopter project, which developed one of the most capable autonomous helicopter in the world. In this project they created a helicopter with AI algorithms encoded within it and then the helicopter was flown by an expert to perform some aerobatics on it and then the AI would learn to do those same aerobatics on its own. This project was conducted in 2008. The helicopter was left to do a number of such stunts and then the overall result was considered to evaluate which stunts did it do the best of all.

He also did a project in 2008 called STAIR ((Stanford AI Robot). This multi-tasked robot can do works like fetching or delivering items, preparing meals using normal kitchen, tidying up room, using tool to assemble bookshelf, etc. A robot with such capabilities will change the future of AI; however, carrying out such tasks requires significant advancements in integrating learning, manipulation, perception, etc. He has made significant contributions in the field of AI and we hope that he will continue to do so.