Andrew Ng

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Andrew Ng

Andrew Ng (* 1976 in London , Great Britain ) is a Chinese-American computer scientist , known for his work on artificial intelligence, robotics and massive online learning; he is co-founder of the online learning platform Coursera .

Background and work

Ng's parents were from Hong Kong and he grew up there and in Singapore. He graduated from Raffles Institution in Singapore in 1992 and studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon University with a bachelor's degree in 1997 and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a master's degree in 1998. Ng worked in 2003 with Michael I. Jordan at the University of California, Berkeley, PhD (with dissertation "Shaping and Policy Search in Reinforcement Learning"). He then taught at Stanford University , where he rose to Associate Professor (later he was Adjunct Professor there) and dealt with machine learning and data mining . Among other things, he led a project for an autonomous helicopter in Stanford and STAIR (Stanford Artificial Intelligence Robot), which led to the open source software package for Robotics Robot Operating System (ROS). In 2011/12 he was at Google , where he founded and co-led the Google Brain project for deep learning techniques with Jeff Dean and others . Artificial neural networks access Google's distributed databases. An example of this is Google Cat , where a massive neural network with 1 billion parameters learned from unordered YouTube videos to spot cats.

From 2014 he worked for the Chinese search engine company Baidu , where he managed projects on artificial intelligence (AI) applications in big data. There he was Chief Scientist, Head of the AI ​​Group and Vice President. His group introduced two new businesses at Baidu: autonomous driving and the DuerOS Conversational Computing Platform. In March 2017, he announced that he would be leaving Baidu.

He is a pioneer of Massive Open Online Courses . In 2012 he founded Coursera with Daphne Koller as a platform for online learning. Prior to that, he started the Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) program in Stanford in 2008, which put courses online for free. Over 100,000 students enrolled in the Stanford courses.

In 2003, he published an influential article with David Blei and Michael Jordan on Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), a simple system for topic modeling. In 2007 he received a scholarship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation . In 2008, he was voted one of the 35 "Top Innovators" worldwide by the MIT Technology Review. In 2009 he received the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrew Ng in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ^ John Markoff: In a Big Network of Computers, Evidence of Machine Learning. In: nytimes.com. June 25, 2012, accessed September 30, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Google brain develops a preference for cat photos. In: derstandard.at . June 27, 2012, accessed September 30, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Peter High, AI Influencer Andrew Ng Plans The Next Stage In His Extraordinary Career , Forbes, June 5, 2017
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SURNAME Ng, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese-American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Britain